Meanwhile, in The Back of the Yard

Before we went to see the owls, I went out back to see if the Swamp Sparrow had returned.

It had not.

But this critter was scurrying about by the back pond.

Another Timberdoodle. Very cool. And once again upstaging the sparrow.

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As we returned home from owning, another (the same?) Timberdoodle was in our front yard, at the end of the driveway, feeding a bare patch of ground.

That was Monday. On Tuesday evening there were perhaps as many as five Woodcock in the yard. 

And that's a good thing.