Timber Doodle

  Last evening I got a chance to see up close, one of the most secretive birds in North America, the Timber Doodle or American Woodcock. What a beauty.  I've see them many times, but not this close. He has a very long bill to dig for worms and a short heavy body.

  I remember as a kid, walking the forests near dark and hearing a very strange sound called peenting. The woodcock male flies high and then as he descends, he makes a beautiful song intended to impress the ladies. He repeats this over and over until he gets tired. Another of the many sounds of fall in Minnesota.

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Good Reading,
Ron