Girdletree NewsLocal news for Girdletree, MD continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.Catching Up With Woodcock Before Their Disappearing Act- January 20, 2008 "That's what keeps you coming back" GIRDLETREE, Md.Of all the critters that prosper in the squishy woodlands of the lower Eastern Shore, none is more peculiar or unpredictable than the little brown woodcock, which migrates south in winter as the ground freezes.Woodcock don't look as if they belong in a freshwater bog. No one knows why they evolved over the millennia from shorebirds digging for sea worms in salt marshes into upland birds probing the damp forest floor for land worms with their...http://www.topix.net/city/girdletree-md/2008/01/catching-up-with-woodcock-before-their-dis... |