I was pulling garlic mustard in the woods, when I saw a woodcock running along not far from me. I never see woodcock unless I inadvertently flush them, and then they typically fly a short distance in sort of an arc, and drop down again. This bird was sort of hunched up, and had it’s wings lifted just a little bit away from the body. It kept moving pretty steadily, and then reversed direction and started going back again. I could watch it moving on the ground for several minutes. It took only one or two small hopping flights. I’d sort of lost track of it behind the ground cover when I saw it fly up and come down again. Very close to the place where I had flushed one from it’s nest a few years back. So I started thinking that this could have been distraction display? though it is no where near as pronounced as say killdeer. Inga Schnidt Chagrin River Road Geauga Co. at the Cuy. Co. koine ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]