 Good evening backyard naturalists. In this video, you're going to join me for one of my favorite corpuscular activities looking for American wood cocks or affectionately known as timber doodling. The American woodcock is a shorebird, but doesn't live by the shore. Instead, they live in the forests of Maine and they'll come out on these spring evenings looking for open fields like this, especially with little wet areas where they will display. It's a lecking species meaning that the females will come out and watch the lecking males, the displaying males, which will vocalize. They'll give this very nasal, little pint noise. We'll be listening for that. And then they have these amazing arial displays that they do. The males will take off flying up into the sky, gaining a lot of altitude, and then making this twittering noise, which is actually as the air passes through specially modified primaries, their outer flight feathers. As the wind cuts through that, it makes this twittering noise. And they'll do the serial display for almost a full minute. We'll hear that twittering and then they descend back down to the ground to see if we can get it on camera. And I hope we have some success. Let's see what we can do. Full disclosure, this is what you'll see most of the time when looking for wood cocks. With some effort and a spotlight, you might have some luck. And if you are extra lucky, you may get to see the male's final display bobbing with his wings raised as he approaches the watching female.