Shortly after 5 this afternoon I was walking from the Oven to Bow Bridge when an American Woodcock flew pretty much directly in front of me and curved around to land at the water's edge of the Riviera section of the Lake. I was stunned a moment then headed toward where it landed and then it flew again to the top of the meadow area right north of it. I searched (among lots of sparrows) and didn't see it until it flew again, over the rise. I tried to find it in the field area north and at the Oven and couldn't find it so ran to the feeders to see if I could get more pairs of eyes and binoculars to help find it.
Martin, Saul, Margaret and Evangeline (my apologies if I spelled any of these names wrong) came with me and I showed them where I'd seen it and we looked and Martin caught a glimpse at the top of that rocky hill that's directly between the Oven and Warbler Rock. We went up there and looked and then heard it and saw it fly to over by Warbler Rock, so we went over there. We looked and looked and then heard and saw it fly again and it seemed to land at the water's edge of the Lake just west of Bow Bridge. So we went over there and again looked and looked, but we never saw a good close-up look at the bird on the ground. I wanted to let people know, though, that they should keep their eyes and ears open tomorrow if they're in the Park!! --Emilie Storrs -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
