Continuing with woodcock week: while scouting for this weekend's field trip, I got the following thermal infrared footage of woodcock courtship and, I believe, mating, followed by a celebratory skydance. Same video on both facebook and youtube (quality may differ between the platforms, not sure):
https://www.facebook.com/suan.yong/videos/10219410881080701/ https://youtu.be/basYq15QoO4 Suan -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --