02 March 2010 Town of Saugerties Two days into meteorological spring, I heard and observed three first-of-season American Woodcock vocalizing and displaying under a bright full moon at approximately 4:30 a.m. this morning, over the open fields along Krout Road just north of the Village of Saugerties in extreme northern Ulster County. I am not normally in this area at that hour, so it is possible these birds may have arrived a day earlier, but they represent the first woodcock I have encountered this year and what has traditionally been for me the first realistic indication of spring.
Steve M. Chorvas Saugerties, NY [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
