Heard an American Woodcock displaying at about 6:35 PM yesterday on Ludlow
Road in Lansing, my first of this year. Always a delight!
Harold Mills
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I've scared up a bird in my pasture at night 2 or 3 times now. It flies with
quick wing beats and rolls as it goes. Last night it landed close to me and I
got a good look at it in my headlamp beam - American woodcock - a first for me!
Deb
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Tonight I attended the first hour of the SFO lecture series (We field trippers
were invited to the part about eBird which was well presented by Chris Wood),
then I headed in the dusky light over to the other side of the Ithaca airport
to look & listen for Woodcocks.
When I got there, my friend
My son and I were out there this evening, too, and we heard lots of peents and
saw several aerial displays (some in pairs and others single). Heading down
Snyder Road towards Hanshaw Road afterwards we had a lovely long look at a
Barred Owl perched right along the south side of the road (about
Lee Ann van Leer's earlier post prompted me to visit the site near Snyder and
Mohawk Rds. adjacent to the Tompkins County Airport this evening where I was
not disappointed. I arrived at 7:20 p.m. and at approximately 7:35 p.m. I
began to hear the distinct peent sounds coming from the thickets
Yesterday I was standing in the middle of a rutted dirt road in the Finger Lakes
National Forest, scanning with binoculars for frogs along the edges of a large
puddle. Caught some movement at the corner of my field of view and in came a
female
Woodcock, doing the broken wing and flared tail act wh
I should have posted earlier, but wanted to back up Matt's observation.
On Tue noon (before the snow), I walked north Wilson trail (the marshy loop at
Sapsucker Woods) and frighted up an AMERICAN WOODCOCK who flew straight away
from me (horizontal), wings 'whistling' and yellowish rump showing.
To my surprise, I’ve discovered that we have at least 3 WOODCOCKS across the
road from our house. What surprises me (and this may show my lack of knowledge
on the subject) is that this area is active farm acreage. Nearest the road is a
section of first-year alfalfa, then last year’s corn, then a
I was just surveying my back pasture and discovered an American Woodcock
sunning at the edge of the seasonal stream (quite boggy where it is
open-otherwise we are under feet of snow here on Torok Rd. in Groton).
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