Williamson's Weekly Nature Notes January 7 2009

By The Newsroom

Published 6th Jan 2009, 11:41 BST

Updated 8th Jun 2018, 04:12 BST

I ALWAYS look forward to teatime. A man's mug (none of your saucers), the last of the Christmas cake: the world can wait. But there's another ritual in winter too: the flight of the woodcock.

Again, everything is on hold for 10 minutes. The bird comes out of the wood 40 minutes after the sun sets.

Now it can't be the same bird year after year but the same flight path is used year after year.