Woodcocks

Spotted six woodcocks in the yard resting there wings. Maybe the snow storm prevented them from flying farther north. I have never seen them before. They all just landed like mourning doves do.

Fun to hunt, Good eat’n!

BIRDDOG

they are funny lookin little guys we shoot a lot of them duck hunting at my grandmeas in the swamp when the cold start in mid to late october on a “normal” fall

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Fun to hunt, Good eat’n!

BIRDDOG

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Do you have a way to prepare woodcock that makes them taste good? I’ve shot a few over the years while grouse hunting say in early October. I’ve field dressed and prepared them just as I would a quail but they have a different flavor that I just can’t seem to get past. A little bit like the livery flavor of a hungarian partridge but stronger. If I’m lucky enough to drop one of the little guys I will eat it. They are a challenge to drop to be certain. They fly every which way when they flush. No particularily fast fliers but with such an irradic flight path it is diffcult to find a true bead on the bird before he switches direction again. They also appear to be flying much faster than they really are because of the noise they make when they flush. This tends to cause a person to over lead them.

Eyehunter

They been camped in puddles down here for a couple weeks. Gone yesterday.

you guys got woodcocks but i got ducks as pets in my ack yard atleast they seem like pets i walk outside and say here duckey duckey and they come running to about 2 feet infront of me then i feed them bread