Enid Mallory
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We are travelling close to home right now as the birds come back to Peterborough, Ontario.
On Saturday night we joined the Peterborough Field Naturalists group to walk a deserted road through a swamp and listen to spring peepers and wood frogs. We had another agenda, the sky dance of the American woodcock, sometimes locally called the Timber-doodle. We first heard its peent sound, then the subtle sound of its upward flight, then the different sound of spiraling downward. Once the bird came close to us overhead in the dusky dark, a special thrill.,
Another thrill was the sound of snipes also performing in the dark. A mother in our groups told her little girl, listen to the ghost bird.
On another day - in daylight this time - I drove country roads and heard many meadowlarks singing, a wonderful sound since we know these grassland birds are in decline. Kildeer were also calling in the fields. Now I await the return of the bobolinks.
Enid Mallory
Travels with Birds (www.enidmallory.weebly.com )
On Saturday night we joined the Peterborough Field Naturalists group to walk a deserted road through a swamp and listen to spring peepers and wood frogs. We had another agenda, the sky dance of the American woodcock, sometimes locally called the Timber-doodle. We first heard its peent sound, then the subtle sound of its upward flight, then the different sound of spiraling downward. Once the bird came close to us overhead in the dusky dark, a special thrill.,
Another thrill was the sound of snipes also performing in the dark. A mother in our groups told her little girl, listen to the ghost bird.
On another day - in daylight this time - I drove country roads and heard many meadowlarks singing, a wonderful sound since we know these grassland birds are in decline. Kildeer were also calling in the fields. Now I await the return of the bobolinks.
Enid Mallory
Travels with Birds (www.enidmallory.weebly.com )
