Almost forgot to answer your second part. Blue Grouse are easy. But they stayed still for my dog, maybe only 1/3 of the time. I noticed a great difference in the birds reaction between past trips where it was just me hiking and this trip where I had a dog and a gun. I think people alon bother the birds less, but the birds freak out at the sight of a dog (predator). Usually Blue Grouse just fly and land in a tree when flushed, or if on a Logging road, "run". But with my dog, when they flushed, they usually kept going. Or attempted too.

They live in open Pine Forest. I would say found at 8000 to 11000 feet normally during season. The birds I killed were full of berries, but I believe they eat pine needles in the winter. One area I hunted by walking closed forest roads and old logging roads. Basically I was finding birds that where near the road or on it graveling. Another area I was hunting off the edge of a meadow or park just in an Aspen Forest. The first bird I killed there had berries in it that stained my hands like blueberrys when I looked to see what they were eating. So I hunted near berries. But mostly you just get in the pines, I especially found them around the big ponderosa pines, and walk, walk, walk.

Go here if you want to see more about my grouse hunting this year.
http://www.texastradingpost.com/Hunting/20082009b.htm