Dipet Update

American Woodcock

On a tip from two friends, one for the bird, and the other for a location, we took the kids out on Sunday night to see and hear American Woodcock at the York Road entrance to the RBG properties.

It was great. We went for a walk for about forty minutes before. Then right at dusk, just after 8 p.m., we started to hear the unique, nasal peent all around us. Within minutes we could see birds flying above us and hear they’re wings whistling.

It was one of those rare occasions where I told the kids we were going out to see something, and we weren’t disappointed in the least bit by what we saw and heard. The birds were there, they did their display, and we all went home happy.