I went out this day specifically looking for Ruffed Grouse. I saw this plunge hole from across a small clearing and seeing no exit hole I was sure the grouse was still in there. I crept slowly across the clearing towards the plunge hole with my camera ready, thinking that the grouse would simply pop up out of the snow and allow me to take a few photo of it as I have seen them do before. I was wrong. The grouse burst out of the snow and disappeared into the distance before I knew what happened. Even though I was fully expecting a grouse to pop out of the ground it still was a startling experience when it actually happened.