Tuesday, June 14, 2016
From thick undergrowth at the side of the path two lovely reddish woodcocks erupted and flew off through the trees. One was squeaking and had a fluttering sort of flight, and I saw the long, downward-pointing bill as it turned a bend in the path. It continued to squeak and then came fluttering out again and followed the flight-path of the other one down the hill.
We walked on, and were discussing whether they had both been young birds when a woodcock came flying from our left across the path, twisting and turning before it, too, vanished. We agreed that this one was definitely an adult bird.
A spotted flycatcher was seen nearby.
// posted by Christine @ 3:22 PM 
