Woodcock Season

 Went over to Rolling Meadows after dinner to look for American Woodcocks.  Its a great looking bird if you can get a good look at it.

I couldn't.  

From Cornell's site:

Superbly camouflaged against the leaf litter, the brown-mottled American Woodcock walks slowly along the forest floor, probing the soil with its long bill in search of earthworms. Unlike its coastal relatives, this plump little shorebird lives in young forests and shrubby old fields across eastern North America. Its cryptic plumage and low-profile behavior make it hard to find except in the springtime at dawn or dusk, when the males show off for females by giving loud, nasal peent calls and performing dazzling aerial displays.

I could hear them and seem them fly, but it's dusk and they show up as silhouettes.  Maybe next time.

I did see a couple of bluebirds though.

Yesterday I stopped by Blanchard and got a great look at a Ring-necked duck and his wife.