Hi Spencer, What you've described is an almost perfect auditory report of a woodcock calling and it's display flight. Could this be what you're hearing? http://monarchbfly.com/2009/04/15/american-woodcock-display-video/ ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]