[NatureNS] woodcock

Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:04:10 -0300 (ADT)
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi Donna and All</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Your post reminds me of a day about 30 - 35 years ago.</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">I forget exactly.&#160; I was going camping for a week or so around Pestowesk.</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">I could drive to the lake at that time - the good old days!</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Anyway just before I got to the Farmlands Trail near that wet spot</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">a female woodcock and 3 - 4 chicks were on the side of the road.</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">The chicks were small!</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">That would be about May 4 or 5. I went back and told Peter</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">and he came with the cameras . I don&#39;t know if he had any luck.</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">It was a good omen nevertheless - the fishing was good!</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Do you think we will be able to go fishing in Keji come April?</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Or will I need fill the bathtub!</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Enjoy the spring</span>
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   <span style="font-size: 12pt;">Paul</span>
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   On March 25, 2020 at 8:31 AM Donna Crossland &#60;dcrossland@eastlink.ca&#62; wrote:
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   <p>Last evening, I stepped out for a walk and heard the familiar &#34;peeent&#34; coming from the same place in a tiny clearing on old pastureland, where it calls from each spring.&#160; It&#39;s back...&#160; </p> 
   <p>It&#39;s nice that some things don&#39;t change.</p> 
   <p>I smiled.&#160; Spring and nature.&#160; </p> 
   <p>Our woods has lots of muddy and poorly drained areas for foraging, and open spots for courtship.</p> 
   <p>I&#39;ve always wanted to see the courtship display but never have:</p> 
   <p>&#160; Courtship display</p> 
   <p>I have seen them do this &#39;dance move&#39; (really a foraging movement).&#160; It is more entertaining than courtship, though I love the idea that the male &#39;dances&#39; and performs nuptial flights for the female.&#160; That should be a rule!</p> 
   <p>Dancing in the groove</p> 
   <p>The next video was a surprise (never knew it existed), from Kejimkujik:</p> 
   <p>Keji Woodcock dance freeze</p> 
   <p>If ever people complain of the slow speed limit (20 km) on that narrow dirt road, we could show this video.</p> 
   <p>Enjoy!</p> 
   <p>Donna Crossland</p> 
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