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Bird that has no business being on our crowded streets is rescued in the Back Bay

By adamg on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 12:59pm

The Garden Club of the Back Bay reports the rescue of a woodcock on Arlington Street. Same one spotted downtown yesterday? How many woodcocks could there be flitting around Boston Proper?

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Comments

By Roztonian on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 1:12pm.

good thing...its bird hunting season (obviously not downtown). Hope the little bird makes it back to the thick swampy woods where it belongs.

By Gary C on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 2:04pm.

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By anon on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 3:19pm.

I would hope someone wouldn't blow the brains out of a beautiful bird just for the fun of it.

By MrZip on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 1:16pm.

Get that birdie on his way to somewhere warm with lots of tasty worms. Lucky he wasn't a snipe or they'd never have found him.

By Stevil on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 3:09pm.

Snipes don't exist here - but they do in Africa - wading bird with a straw -like beak.

In fact resembles the American Woodcock.

By Lisfnord on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 3:28pm.

Snipes do exist here. And they do look very much like woodcocks, with that crazy long beak and stubby body. Funny things
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Wilsons_Snipe/maps-range

By Jethro on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 3:29pm.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snipe_hunt

By Lisfnord on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 3:36pm.

When I was a camp counselor, many moons ago, we used to send the campers on snipe hunts when we needed a break :D

By Steeve on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 3:59pm.

I knew a really scuzzy kid in the 90s who called half-smoked cigarettes snipes and would go on hunts for them each day. Come back with a "pack" of snipes.

By Dani B. on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 1:40pm.

and thought this article was going to be more pearl clutching over electric rental scooters.

By Oscar Worthy on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 1:49pm.

Maybe it'll drop back in for a quick Boston visit while passing through next Spring, and we can all catch up. (And I don't know if he/she is in a realtionship or not. But I've got a turkey friend . . )

By Gary C on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 2:07pm.

Get that bird some wifi!

By anon on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 3:18pm.

There was a woodcock in the South End last fall that had sadly been struck and killed by a car. I've seen them in the Fenway Victory Gardens alive and well from time to time.

By Steeve on Tue, 10/23/2018 - 3:57pm.

Butt-Head: Uh-huh-huh, uh-huh-huh…

Beavis: Heh, heh, heh…