Wanting more of the cold, windy, faint American Woodcock encounter our Spring Ornithology class group had Tuesday night, tonight I went on my own Woodcock Prowl by the Snyder Rd./Airport fields.
First I tried by the tall airport fence where our group went Tues. No "Peents" there. So, well after the sun had set, I moved east between the 2 sets of thickets, across the road from and a little east of the beige building on Snyder Rd. Soon, I heard a Peent towards the east bushes. Each time the Woodcock stopped Peenting to fly up in the air, I moved towards where the Peents had been. It got dark but I am sure I caught glimpses of the bird moving a little on ground. Then, after the last Peent and flight, I turned around to face the lighter western sky and saw the bird's silhouette as it landed! It stopped peenting, so I stumbled over the stubble in the dark, back to my car. SO COOL! Donna Scott d...@cornell.edu -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
