Geese and Woodcocks

[James Wilson]

Yesterday morning (Wednesday) I had 3 gaggles of Canada Geese flying high and definitely heading north. I am sure the southerly winds helped.

I have about 40 acres of farmer's fields across the street from my house. The field is lined with woods on 2 sides with a stream flowing thru the woods. I was out listening for woodcocks for the past 2 nights with no luck. I have had them before in these fields. Any woodcocks being heard??
Jim Wilson
Queenstown

[Mary Maxey]

I saw a large flock (40) geese flying high from my house at about 1000 yesterday morning

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[Georgia McDonald]

We also had 2 gaggles of 60+ Canadas flying very high towards the northeast while birding the Parkton section of the NCR Trail.

Georgia McDonald      Towson, Balt Co.

[Kurt Schwarz]

At least 5-6 Woodcock were displaying last night in appropriate habitat in Patuxent River SP from 05:55 pm until we left about 06:45. Spring Peepers were in full chorus as well.

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Kurt Schwarz
Ellicott City, Howard County
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[jugbayjs]

No woodcocks yet, which is highly unusual. I've been checking for them every evening at our house (by Jug Bay) and have yet to hear/see one this year.

[jugbayjs]

Sent by mistake before I finished. We normally have them by 3rd week in February here, but in general their numbers have been declining for many years. For the last several years I've only been seeing 1-3 displaying hereat this time of year, about a 50-75 percent decline. The trend is not likely to improve.

On a more positive note, we had the first Osprey of 2018 here yesterday, our third earliest arrival as noted in my eBird report.

Regards-
Jeff Shenot
Croom Md

[Scott Baron]

I saw a Woodcock in my neighborhood in Gaithersburg at dusk.  I first detected it because of the twittering wing sound.  I thought that it was going to display but it didn't come back.

Also, a Pine Warbler was singing in a stand of pines yesterday at an elementary school in Rockville.

Scott Baron

Gaithersburg, Md.

[jovet]

We saw and heard woodcock at Wooton's Landing, AA County, in their usual spot earlier this week.  There were probably 8 individual birds and they were active.  This was surprising to me, as the wooded field has become more of a swamp recently.  My impression is that there are less than the last few years as in the past they were active over a wider area in the park.  

Joanne

Joanne Howl, DVM

jo...@aol.com

[Tim Houghton]

Several Woodcock peenting Tuesday at Konterra.

Tim Houghton
(Glen Arm)

[Andy Smith]

Yesterday morning while walking around McDonogh pond in Owings Mills, I counted over 400 CAGO in 3 large skeins heading north between 8:15 and 9 a.m.