Little Winnie Resort sits on 70 heavily-wooded acres offering
grouse an ideal habitat with lots of cover. Beyond our
property lies thousands of acres of public hunting ground in the
Chippewa National Forest. Grouse hunters can base their hunt
from Little Winnie Resort making it easy to return to our
comfortable cabins at the end of the day. We are hunters
ourselves and will be happy to give you a few pointers to make your
hunt more successful and your stay with us more enjoyable!
Grouse Hunting Tips and
Ruffed Grouse Habitat Information
Minnesota is the top ruffed grouse-producing state in the U.S. No
other state harvests as many ruffed grouse each fall or provides as
much public hunting land containing ruffed grouse.
Ruffed grouse are a native woodland bird about the size of a small
chicken. The bird is noted for its fan-shaped tail marked by a
broad, dark band. Some ruffed grouse--called red-phased birds--have
chestnut-colored tails, and the gray-phased birds have gray or
slate-colored tails. The bird also has a concealed neck ruff that
the male puffs out during courtship displays.
Male ruffed grouse make a well-known drumming noise that sounds
similar to a distant lawnmower engine. He drums by beating his wings
in the air, starting slowly as a series of thumps, and then, as
beating speeds up, the sound resembles a drum or engine. The
drumming occurs on logs, boulders, tree roots, or other elevated
sites known as “drumming logs.”
Little Winnie Resort sits on 70 heavily-wooded acres offering
grouse an ideal habitat with lots of cover. Beyond our
property lies thousands of acres of public hunting ground in the
Chippewa National Forest. Grouse hunters can base their hunt
from Little Winnie Resort making it easy to return to our
comfortable cabins at the end of the day. We are hunters
ourselves and will be happy to give you a few pointers to make your
hunt more successful and your stay with us more enjoyable!
Minnesota is the top ruffed grouse-producing state in the U.S. No
other state harvests as many ruffed grouse each fall or provides as
much public hunting land containing ruffed grouse.