[mou] Douglas Cnty Young Birds (Long)Albany sewage

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Spent parts of Sat & this AM poking around Douglas County. Saw two pair of 
Red-necked Grebes, one of the Grebes on nest on a small lake in N central 
Douglas. Saw a BCNight Heron in a pond with a 2/3 size juvenile in NC Douglas. Saw 
two SHCranes with a half-size juvenile in Belle River township. Also in Belle 
River I saw an adult Am. Woodcock in the road with two young. I'd never seen a 
Woodcock walking, let alone three of them at once, expecially in the road. Nor 
did I quite believe that I ever would have, nor do I ever think I will again. 
I stopped the car immediately (this is essentially a one-lane dirt road) and 
killed the engine and we each(all) looked at the other(s). When a woodcock 
walks across a road when it is looking a a car 10 feet away its body undulates in 
the strangest way and not in time with each step, but to its own undulating 
rhythm. The first young skittered across into the weeds but the second and the 
adult took fully four or five minutes to make it across the road with this 
strange walk and would have taken longer but I finally started the car and began 
inching forward and they finally skittered along the edge of the road and into 
the weeds. If anyone has seen anything like this before, please let me know. 
I still can't quite believe it happened. Woodcock should stick to flying. 
(Just an opinion.)
    Saw a few shorebirds, a solitary, L.Yellowlegs, Pectorals and a few 
Peeps. Albany sewage had a Spotted and two non-breeding plumage Wilson's Phalaropes.