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We're on the eastern most point along the coast, so our weather is a lot different than inland, but things have definitely been very different the past two years. Last year in October we were still in the upper 70's and the push( 15 to 20 bird days) happened after the 15th, we were running grouse and kicking up woodcock, in the past 20 yrs hunting Downeast that's the first time I had ever experienced that. With all things considered normally in the lower wetter thickets we can have a few birds that will hang around into Dec, but never in big numbers, there might be one or two stragglers. Over the past years there has definitely been a shift not only with climate but migration patterns as well. On a typical year the first week of November is when you start seeing the bird numbers dry up.
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12-06-2018, 04:15 PM | #15 | ||||||
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Its one game bird I love to hunt, I try to find patterns, when you think you got it down, those little buggers will school you every time!
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The past 2 years i thought i missed them, it has been very thin in the 3rd and 4th week of Oct. This year 1st week of Nov. was best with no time to hunt later. Rick you are right about trying to figure them out. I am hunting western mountain areas.
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12-06-2018, 05:56 PM | #17 | ||||||
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But this year the first big flight (17 productive points in 1 hr., 15 mins.) came in on the Friday of the third weekend of October and was sporadically good from then through the first full week of November. Then we got a lot of snow squalls and temps in the low twenties/high teens at night. That ended it.
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12-08-2018, 10:46 AM | #18 | ||||||
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Here is a pretty cool link studying the migration routes along the East Coast, Moosehorn is about 30 minutes from the house. https://www.woodcockmigration.org
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