Wildlife Camera of a Woodcock
Wildlife Camera of a Woodcock
Those who follow our Facebook page, Wenvoe Wildlife, will have seen a clip from our wildlife cameras of a Woodcock in a patch of woodland near the village. With only one previous record in the Parish the bird is rare and classified as RED, i.e. threatened with extinction. It also has Protected status in the UK. Although a wading bird it spends much of its time in woodland as with our example and is mainly nocturnal. Most of the birds that breed here are residents but we often receive large numbers of migrants from Finland and Russia in the winter. In Spring and Summer male birds perform a display flight known as ‘roding