I read the April Chapter of A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold, followed by Fran Hamerstrom’s Walk When the Moon is Full, also the April Chapter, both talk lovingly about watching and hearing the skydance of the American Woodcock. We’ll hear the distinctive sounds the woodcock make during the skydance. Leopold also writes about the benefits of Come High Water, when floodwaters keep one from obligations in town and no one can visit, and he talks about the tiny flower of spring, the draba, “a small creature that does a small job quickly and well.”, and he writes about the storm troops of the forest, the bur oaks, standing against the fires of the prairies, and the changes that occurred on the landscape when Europeans arrived and started to extinguish prairie fires.
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