SUN JOURNAL • November 28, 2020
Editors and my wife Diane have caught mistakes before they wound up engraved in black type for all to see. But, alas, in August I made a beaut, a significant math error in an article about Ruffed Grouse that just slid on by. Inadvertently, I stated that the grouse flew at 900 feet per second! My face is red. In fact, a grouse’s top speed is 35 mph. That computes to 51.3 feet per second. A grouse that flies at 900 feet per second is supersonic at sea level, 613 mph, or as the test pilots say, Mach One. My apologies to all, especially to the Ruffed Grouse, who is a stalwart and impressive game bird in its own right and needs no marketing hoopla from me. ~ V. Paul Reynolds