I asked my friend/ kendal resident about her Merlin woodcock report on Eclipse
day & she wrote:
Hi Donna
I think the woodcock registered on my Merlin as it was darkening. I was getting
bored with the clouds cover of the eclipse so turned on Merlin. I first got a
cardinal then song sparrow, robi
Last night (Monday) not long after sunset 3 of us inmates heard and saw the
Woodcock doing its display flight and peenting!
I think we saw it both ascending and descending.
It seems to have quit right after 8 PM both nights I was listening/observing.
It was in the same spot on Mt. Kendal as it wa
Tonight after dinner in the main building here at Kendal (7:05), I walked to
the small hill to the south of "campus" that we call Mt. Kendal to see if I
could find the Woodcock that was reported by Nelly Farnum last night.
Finally, after it was almost dark (~7:40), I heard a relatively faint pe
Just got back from a concert (!!!) and opened the car door to hear one also. Now
Heard two more. And earlier today my husband flushed 2 woodcock right behind
the house
Nice!
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> On Mar 17, 2022, at 10:12 PM, Eveline V. Ferretti wrote:
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> First woodcock peent in the fi
First woodcock peent in the field across my house (Mount Pleasant area). Loud
and incessant! Spring.
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Mann Library / Cornell University Library
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Witnessed the woodcock's skydance tonight a bit east of Phelps, NY.
Pete Sar
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I heard my first woodcock of the year this evening. A wonderful end to a
beautiful day.
-Liz Brown
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Woodcock peents heard just now near Willow Creek Rd, Ulysses.
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This morning in an alder swamp at the edge of Michigan Hollow Marsh I nearly
stepped on a brood of Woodcock chicks. Mom flew up just in front of me,
attempting distraction, but I looked down at my feet instead, and there they
were. Photo on my eBird checklist, if you’re in need of a dose of cute
Thanks Marie!
Funny about the woodcock. Last night, as I lay in bed, I heard the
wing-feathers whistling of a woodcock right outside the window. No “peanuts”,
no sky display with chirps. Just a woodcock on the move. We had as many as 5
woodcocks in our fields this spring, and I often hear them
Hi everyone,
I found a couple of interesting "yard" birds as I made my way through the woods
edge on my property to see what was around in the beaver pond next door.
First, up from the ground flew a chunky medium-sized bird which fluttered off
twittering into the woods and landed on the ground
Our group went to Dodge Road, where the woodcocks started later than when I
scouted, but with enough light to be easily seen. After a few skydances,
those with muck boots and binoculars took a few steps into the muddy field
where I was able to get my spotlight on the bird on the ground.
The owling
The CBC trip led by Suan Young and myself broke into two groups before heading
off to look for woodcocks and owls. I led my group to the corner of Snyder Hill
and Whitted Roads. We got out of the cars at a minute before 8 pm, just as the
woodcock uttered its first “peent” of the night. We were a
Still present, now farther south straight out halfway to road from 5th post
of Podell Boardwalk.
Mark
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WOODCOCK crossing Lansing Station rd by 197.
Went into thicket & out of sight.
Donna Scott
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We had our first Woodcock last Thursday the 22nd, the day of the snowstorm.
Technically we are a few hundred yards south of the basin in Newfield. This is
very early even for our location.
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Nancy Dickinson, when she lived a bit further down the hill in Mecklenburg,
regularly got the first of year Woodcock in February.
- - Dave Nutter
> On Feb 26, 2018, at 7:45 AM, k...@empacc.net wrote:
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> Wow! The 31 year norm here, just about 2 miles and a bit higher than you, is
> 3/18 and th
y be from other
(coastal?/southern?) N.Y. State.
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Wow! The 31 year norm here, just about 2 miles and a bit higher than
you, is 3/18 and the earliest was 3/8. Congrats Ken.
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On 2018-02-25 23:4
OOB: woodcock also in Owasco basin. Very Early.
On Feb 25, 2018 6:41 PM, "Ken Haas" wrote:
> Yesterday, Dave Nutter was riding with me as we participated in Suan’s CBC
> field trip around the lake. Great trip, by the way many thanks to Suan and
> others. Dave suggested that I start listening for
Yesterday, Dave Nutter was riding with me as we participated in Suan’s CBC
field trip around the lake. Great trip, by the way many thanks to Suan and
others. Dave suggested that I start listening for woodcock by the field next to
where I live - just West of Mecklenberg on Rt. 79. So, 6:25PM this
There was just an alert on Facebook that Woodcocks are really suffering due
to the snowstorm as they have migrated in only to find no ground and no
earthworms available. I hope that your stream may have some open muddy
areas along the edge.
Linda Orkin
Ithaca,NY
On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:41 AM,
I was out on snowshoes in my backyard around 7:30 last night (dusk). I was
going down towards the stream when a bird in flight caught my eye. It was
headed up the stream bed and it landed out of sight near the stream. It made no
noise - neither vocalizations nor wing noise. It appeared to be foo
I'm leading a bird walk and we found it on Wilson Trail north and it keeps
walking in front of us and is now on Sherwood Platform. It did the woodcock
bobbing 'dance' for us! Quite a treat. 4 stinkin' cute Bluejay fledglings being
fed at Fuller wetlands on same trail.
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Yesterday, while driving on Cayutaville Rd, I spotted a Woodcock in the middle
of the road. I slowed down and pulled over - the bird didn't fly away, but was
making a bobbing motion. Thinking it might need assistance, I opened my door,
talking to it, but it then started slowly walking to the ot
Meanwhile, in the world of woodcockery:
https://www.facebook.com/suan.yong/posts/10209416615430306
Suan
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I heard a very vocal woodcock(s) tonight on Hurd Rd. for about 15 minutes. The
chorus was followed by spring peepers.
Karen
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Hello, just now (9 PM) I heard a single woodcock making his "peent" call in
the marshy woods behind my cottage in the Boiceville Cottages in
Brooktondale.
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Our woodcock has returned! I stepped outside (Sunder Hill area) at 6:30 this
evening to hear just one sequence of “sky dance”. No “peents” before or after.
I assume that the guy arrived last night and is just beginning to settle in. In
past years we have had up to seven woodcocks on and around t
Mark's post reminds me of something I'd been meaning to share. This past
Tuesday (26 May) I had some free time while Laurie was at an eye doctor
appointment for which I would need to drive her home. I spent the hour
wandering the woods off Arrowwood Drive in the Village of Lansing between the
"
The Lindsay-Parsons Preserve has long been a good place for viewing Woodcock
displays. Just park in the lot, walk down the trail into the ravine, cross the
little bridge and continue up and out into the big fields. Head for the knoll
with the Leopold bench: you can see a huge expanse of sky from
Out first American Woodcock of the year began “peenting” tonight. Lots of
calls, one “sky dance”, then quiet. Snyder Hill area. We’ve had as many as
seven in the neighborhood before. Here’s hoping . . . .
Bob McGuire
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At 7:35 tonight I pulled up to the field just east of the airport on Snyder Rd.
The minute I got out of my car I started to hear the “peents" of at least one
American Woodcock coming from the less snowy areas of the field. During the
twenty minutes I hung around I heard repeated peenting and t
I just got home after striking out on the Niemi Rd shrike. But I did manage my
FOY American Woodcock. It gave a few “peents” and then fell silent. South side
of Snyder Rd, 100 yds W of Mohawk Rd.
Bob
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, October 19, 2014 9:04 PM
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Matt Medler and I just heard a Woodcock taking off in a field on Triphammer
Road, just past the Mall. ("skydance" sound - not peenting). I heard the same
thing here on Whitted Road several evenings ago. I see from
Matt Medler and I just heard a Woodcock taking off in a field on Triphammer
Road, just past the Mall. ("skydance" sound - not peenting). I heard the same
thing here on Whitted Road several evenings ago. I see from eBird that they
have lingered in Tompkins County as late as the end of November.
During this morning's Kids Discover the Trails walk, one of the kids spotted a
woodcock some ten feet off the trail (a short distance from the split in Wilson
trail north, opposite end from the footbridge). It sat motionless like a large
strange mushroom, then relieved itself and scuttled into t
I had a woodcock giving a few "peents" yesterday evening along the East Ithaca
Rec Way at dusk. Several peents and then one "sky dance". Nothing more. And no
woodcocks here atop Snyder Hill yet this year.
Bob
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Greetings,
We had two Woodcock “peenting” in our backyard this evening. It’s unusual to
have them here when there is still so much snow on the ground. Also had a FOS
Fox Sparrow trying to scratch up a meal through the frozen snow.
Ken Smith
Hills of Groton
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Today at 3:00 PM I flushed a woodcock from the ditch along Sapsucker Woods
Rd, across from where Sanctuary Dr intersects. It flew only about 30 feet
from the road before landing on the forest floor.
-Mike
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I heard a woodcock calling in the field at the corner of Hillcrest and
Warren on Wed morning
Scott
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On Monday 3 March Chris Wood discovered what appears to be the first reported AMERICAN WOODCOCK for the Cayuga Lake Basin - and all upstate NY - according to eBird. It was along the old railroad grade by Monkey Run South in the Town of Dryden in a tamarack swamp which remained wet despite the frigi
Despite the steady wet snowfall and the late hour, our local woodcock here
behind the Northwood Apts. off Warren Road has been persistently peenting
and doing his display flight as of 11PM.
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At dusk this evening I happened to glance out a window just in time to see a
Woodcock descending for a landing in our front field. It hasn't been above
freezing
for ages, we still have a snow cover and ponds and puddles are still iced in.
As far
as average arrival date goes, it's two days late, but
I had a theory that woodcocks didn't dance when it was too cold or snowy, so
last evening when I took the dog out around 7:40 I was surprised to hear them
as we stepped from the lawn to the edge of a brushy field. There was one
woodcock just landing (and warbling) to my right, and one peenting
Tonight at 7:25pm a male Woodcock was peenting and dancing in the field north
of the parking lot of the Liddell Field Station on Freese Rd. Spring!
Kevin Loope
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Our first American Woodcock of the spring is isplaying behind our apartment
off Warren Rd. near the airport as of a few minutes ago. The "peents" were
difficult to hear in the windy conditions, and I first heard only the
twittering flight display while stepping outside for a few minutes to sweep
th
I knew the weather was right, and sure enough I just listened to 3 rounds of a
woodcock's Sky dance over our soggy field. Happy Spring!
Nancy Dickinson
Mecklenburg
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Hi everyone,
Here are 4 close shots of an American Woodcock that I photographed last night
(May 2) in the field bordered by Snyder and Cherry Rd. north of the airport.
Hard to believe, these were taken handheld, manually focusing, and without an
external flash! Such an awesome bird and one of my
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 aft
As soon as we arrived behind the airport most of my SFO group had an excellent close look at an AMERICAN WOODCOCK on the ground calling before we saw it fly off low toward another spot farther away for complete displays in which we heard the bird calling from the ground, wings whistling during asce
I've been so busy with eBird that I'm just getting around to posting a woodcock
photo from Assateague National Seashore, MD, on the Eaton club's Facebook
page: http://www.facebook.com/groups/eatonbirds/
Back on Feb. 21, when we selected and set up on a site, we had no idea there
was a woodcock i
Shannon and I finally heard and saw a Woodcock this evening in the fields
at the top of the property. Perhaps we had been going out too late given
the lack of moonlight in the evening, or perhaps it was the elevation
(1640-1680 Ft) but this was the first we've heard them this year. It was
great to
I also heard a woodcock in the wind tonight, both wing-flight and ground call.
This is a month earlier than my personal notes show over the last 13 years for
where I live.
Eben McLane
Scipio, NY
On Feb 24, 2012, at 6:37 PM, Nancy W Dickinson wrote:
Hooray!!! I've just been out in this tumultuo
Hooray!!! I've just been out in this tumultuous weather listening to repeated
skydance music from a woodcock in the field north of our house. The wind is so
strong (and cold) I could hear it do the twittering ascent to circle overhead,
and then the chirping descent, for 7 cycles, but couldn't he
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> Subject: Re: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcock
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> Hi Bob,
>
> This summer, I have been working on the Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands
> Project, a binational study encompassing all 5 Great Lakes. However,
> my coworker and I were just working on bird and amphibian
I read your report with interest. I believe that Wolf Island is the
site of some 85 major wind turbines, now in operation. I am wondering
how their presence affects the woodcocks' "sky dance". And I also
wonder how the winter Short-eared Owl population is faring.
Bob McGuire
On Aug 18, 2011,
Last week while vacationing on Wolfe Island in the Thousand Islands(Wolfe is a
large island but very quiet and mainly rural/agricultural) I was driving after
sunset on one of the dirt/gravel roads that compose most of the island when I
saw a woodcock sitting toward the side of the road. It did n
At about 8pm on Friday, April 1, there was a woodcock calling and doing its
flight display at the Cornell experimental ponds.
-Evan
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcock - Ithaca, Tuesday night
Last night at about 11PM, there was a lone Woodcock "peenting" from the wet,
open woods just south of the Northwood Apartments, across Warren Road from the
airport.
Best,
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Last night at about 11PM, there was a lone Woodcock "peenting" from the wet,
open woods just south of the Northwood Apartments, across Warren Road from
the airport.
Best,
Scott
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At 6:26 this evening I heard the peenting of a Woodcock in our upper field. At
last it is snowless! I know they've been waiting. But today is a perfect
Woodcock dancing day.
Nancy Dickinson
Mecklenburg
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Susie & I were returning this evening, in the rain, from a great meal at
Casey's Diner in Freeville, when we noted an AMERICAN WOODCOCK flying south
down Irish Settlement Road and over the car.
S. & S. fast
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You're not likely to destroy any Woodcock nests by cutting hay. The
nests would not be out in the fields, but someplace in nearby woods
(open aspen stands are favored). The young are precocious, and Mom
can shepherd them far from the nest area soon after they hatch.
Here's a link to an Auk
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Subject: [cayugabirds-l] Woodcock family found
On Wednesday night 7pm while walking my fi
On Wednesday night 7pm while walking my field I scared up a family of woodcocks.
I decided to leave them be for a while but will be looking for them again on
Sunday evening.
There was definitely a larger one and several smaller ones.
The smaller ones didn't fly far from the initial site I scared
I was up on Bald Hill (Caroline) last evening, and was slightly surprised to
see an AMER. WOODCOCK begin its flight display. The surprise was mainly
because I hadn't heard any "peents". I watched its flight display for the
next half hour before it stopped, and heard only one good "peent". I had
Just got home from choir rehearsal and heard the WOODCOCK skydancing over the
fallow field out back. I always think of Aldo Leupold and his Sand County
Almanac when I hear Woodcock in the spring.
CHIPPING SPARROWS are back. They seemed to have been animated by the mild
thunderstorm that mo
Three woodcock sightings at dusk. Keuka Hill Road
Julie & Kurt
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