We’re a Singing Ground
That’s what we are — to the American Woodcock. We can hear them out in the driveway and the field behind the barn just at dawn and dusk doing their oddball squatty dance and go “bleep….bleep…bleep.” Apparently, that drives girl woodcocks wild. Where all that goes on is called their “singing ground.”
Read about ‘em: http://www.ruffedgrousesociety.org/woodcock_facts.asp
Or see more picture of ‘em (where this one came from):
http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i2280id.html
and click on the “song”.
Weird. Guess god had a bad bird day.
March 23, 2007 at 10:40 am
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