Last Tuesday, the Society gathered at the airport to watch the peculiar mating habits of the American Woodcock, Scolopax minor. In Sewanee, this bird is most often encountered in late February at dusk in open fields such as the airport and the clear cut off of Breakfield.
The American woodcock has been made popular by writers such as Aldo Leopold who described the display of the male woodcock as the "sky dance" in The Sand County Almanac.
Check out the Cornell website to hear and read about this bird.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/American_Woodcock_dtl.html
Photo from the Cornell website.
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