As birds migrate back into our area, the volume of their calls has elevated into a full-bodied symphony. Spend an evening outside and you'll be treated to an avian aria. And the woodcock is an unmistakable soloist.
On a recent clear, spring night, the state's migratory game bird biologist David Sausville escorted Vermont Edition into Dead Creek in Addison County.
Surrounded by swallows, wild turkeys, Canada geese, wood ducks, mallards and peepers, we went in hunt of the mating call of the male woodcock.