On Thursday (March 27), starting at 7:15 p.m., the Fyke Nature Association is sponsoring a free Woodcock Watch at the Green Way entrance to the Celery Farm.

Here's the plan: We'll show up and look out at the Green Way field in hopes of seeing American Woodcocks and they perform their crazy courtship displays and make their wacky noises.

Directions to Green Way are in the right-hand column of this blog.

Photo above is by the inimitable Kevin Watson. (Thanks, Kevin!)

A link to a column I wrote about woodcocks two years ago for The Record and Herald News is here.

Fyke Calendar quarterback Carol Flanagan writes:

Photos are needed for the 2015 Celery Farm calendar. The only requirement is that the photo was taken at the Celery Farm by a Fyke member.

Sally Wiegand writes from (North) Allendale:

What a sight! 13 turkeys all at once. Both males were strutting their stuff!

(Thanks, Sally!)

This Friday, Fyke member and ace birder Charley West will present a 45-minute-long slide show and talk about Costa Rica’s many brilliantly colored native and migratory birds, seen during a week-long birding trip this past February.

Fyke member Kurt Muenz will provide photographic and electronics support.

Please join Fyke for this free, beautiful and informative presentation. Business meeting starts at 8 p.m., presntation starts at 8:15. Friday, March 28, @ the Allendale Municipal Building, 500 W. Crescent Ave., Allendale.

Rob Fanning spotted a distant adult Bald Eagle perched near Lake Appert this morning (above).

It was kind enough to fly down to the ice (below). Sill distant, but majestic.  Did not see any transmitters or bands. (Thanks, Rob!)