Murray Hampshire likes to set up a trail cam to watch wildlife, and sometimes gets very lucky and captures amazing scenes like that above, as he recorded the mating dances of the Sharp Tail Grouse, with the male, above, not preening for the camera, as it appears, but for the hen behind it. It should be noted that due to email attachment size constraints, the resolution of the above photo is about one-tenth of that of the original recording.
To many, Murray Hampshire is a familiar name because of his work at Flagstaff Waste Management, but we recently discovered that Hampshire is also an avid naturalist.
Hampshire was excited recently to cross a bird off his life bird list, when he spotted a Black-Necked Stilt on his way to work.
Flagstaff Waste Management had just finished doing their scheduled run through Forestburg, Heisler and Galahad Monday when the driver of their compactor truck was heading back to the main office and noticed that his truck seemed to be putting out a little too much smoke to be just exhaust, even in the cold air.
