ML138739571

Age and sex

Unknown age, Male - X

Media notes

Artificially illuminated by light from Doug's cart.

Observation details

Three birds observed at dusk (6:26 p.m.) simultaneously: two birds heard vocalizing ("peent") from woods at moderate distance in different directions, while a third bird was seen flushing / ascending from woodland edge within five meters of us as we walked by. A few minutes later, from 6:28 to 6:37, observing from an adjacent grassy field and beneath open, still slightly illuminated sky, we saw four separate flyovers (Woodcock silhouettes) accompanied by steady wing whirring & chip-whirring, but we could not determine how many, if any, of those four flyover events involved the same bird. Finally, from 6:38 - 6:58, from a stationary position we watched and heard a single grounded male AMWO make repeated "hiccup-peent" calls for nearly twenty minutes, with only a few pauses. The bird barely moved throughout that entire time, only occasionally walking slowly around a three-square meter area, thus giving us some good ops for some spotlighted photos and a couple of brief recordings. Bird ceased vocalizing and finally flushed --- absolutely *silently*, like an owl --- just before 7:00 p.m.

Technical information

Model

NIKON D7200

ISO

25600

Focal length

300 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire, auto

f-stop

f/4.0

Shutter speed

1/320 sec

Dimensions

3324 pixels x 2584 pixels

Original file size

2.55 MB