Ontario grouse & partridge hunting · Camp viewing
Four Ontario grouse films published from late 2024 through 2026. Pick a woodland outing, settle into your chair and meet the people behind the camera.
Press Play to watch here, or open the film on YouTube. The posted dates appear beside each creator. One 2026 upload uses footage recorded two years earlier.
These four films show individual Ontario outings. They are useful views of leaf cover, trail width, visibility and the pace of a woodland day, but they are not controlled bird surveys. A busy sequence of flushes may omit quiet hours, and a posted date may differ from the year filming took place. The notes below retain that distinction where the creator supplies it.
Compare what you can see with the photo identification and habitat guides. Do not use a video title, a bird sitting still or a camp nickname to settle the species. Hunting decisions need the current Ontario rules and permission for the actual ground, even when a filmed route looks familiar.
Sources: Cornell Lab: ruffed grouse identification ↗ · Cornell Lab: spruce grouse identification ↗ · Ontario: small-game rules ↗
Lakes & Woods · August 28, 2026
A Central Ontario outing for ruffed grouse and American woodcock. Posted in August 2026, with footage recorded two years earlier.
The posted date is newer than the filmed hunt.
Original title: Central Ontario Woodcock and Grouse Hunting!
Dylan Zitzloff · November 24, 2025
Dylan Zitzloff heads into Northern Ontario with family and a friend. The video includes hunting, bird cleaning and cooking.
Ontario's ruffed/spruce grouse limit in most northern units is 5 a day per hunter. Ruffed and spruce limits are combined; the video's title refers to a group harvest.
Original title: HUNTING GROUSE IN CANADA! | 2025 NORTHERN ONTARIO (15 BIRD LIMIT)
Manitoulin - Off Grid · October 5, 2025
Manitoulin - Off Grid shares a Northern Ontario outing with their retrieving dog, Cutter, and a day that gives time in the woods its own place.
The creator notes graphic hunting content.
Original title: Grouse Hunt 2025, Northern Ontario, Canada
Lakes & Woods · November 29, 2024
Lakes & Woods shares an Ontario upland outing with Lily the dog, through thick September foliage and warm autumn conditions.
Published in late 2024; the oldest film in this four-video set.
Original title: Bird Hunting in Thick September Foliage! | Woodcock and Grouse Hunting!
From the grouse notebook
A ruffed grouse makes its drumroll with wings moving through air. It does not beat the log.
Spruce grouse may remain motionless and rely on their feather pattern to avoid notice.
Sharp-tailed grouse display together on open grounds called leks, where males stamp their feet and raise their tails.
Read the sources: Cornell Lab: how ruffed grouse drum ↗ · Newfoundland and Labrador: spruce grouse biology ↗ · Cornell Lab: sharp-tailed grouse guide ↗
Mattagami Lake · Gogama
A northern cabin base for an autumn stay.
Dog Lake · Missanabie
Waterfront cabins and time in the North.
West Shining Tree Lake
Ask about a fall fishing and small-game stay.
Pull up a chair
A window into Ontario lodge and camp country.
