Renee

I was interested in the American Woodcock. I had never seen one in my neighborhood but thought I'd heard one once when walking in an area. For this assignment, I went to the marshy area where I thought I had heard the woodcock and sat for a while. I went in the early AM. There was a lot of activity in the marsh and at one point the woodcock just sort of waddled out of the weeds and onto an area where the lawn had been mowed. I watched it simply sit on the lawn for 20 min. or so. I snapped this photo and left.