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Index of Subjects Neat story, Lois, and congratulations on your new "yard bird"!! Goodness, if a woodcock happened to land anywhere in our yard, it would need a shovel and a pick to find any worms! Cheers, Bob McDonald ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lois Codling" <loiscodling@hfx.eastlink.ca> To: "Nature NS" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 9:23 PM Subject: [NatureNS] Am. Woodcock >I happened to open the back door tonight at 8 p.m., and heard a sound which >at first registered as 'Nighthawk'(???), then I realized that it must be a >Woodcock. It was very close, about 30 M., and I yelled for my husband to >come and look for it. He eventually saw it fly off, but it had been on >some bare ground from which our neighbour had shovelled snow. We >identified it by sound, not by sight. Hope he found some worms and will >return! A new yard bird! > > Reminds me of the first Am. Woodcock we ever saw, waddling through the > deep snow in late winter or early spring towards our door when we lived in > Northern N.B. years ago. Had no idea what it was at the time, but it is a > picture I will never forget. > > Lois Codling > L. Sackville
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