October's "Woodcock Moon"
On October 27th we will experience the full moon of the month and it's the one I like to call the "Woodcock Moon."
Legend and lore has it that the greatest migration flight of woodcock from the Maritime Provinces and Downeast Maine will be riding the air currents to warmer climes. I intend to be there to intercept them on Saturday morning, the 31st (weather permitting) high on our "Scrubapple Hillside" in Vermont. I was there last Sunday and found not a single woodcock feather, but immediately after the Woodcock Moon in most of the recent years we have found them there. Not always in significant numbers like we found them three years ago but numbers enough to provide hope and to know we haven't been forsaken by the 'Red Gods' of autumn. I just know we'll do better with Grace this year. She got a snootful of woodcock last year and even found one I thought I had marked down forty feet from where she pinned it.
.Photo courtesy of Patsy D'Agata 2015
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"I'm a Setter man.
Not because I think they're better than the other breeds,
but because I'm a romantic - stuck on tradition - and to me, a Setter just "belongs" in the grouse picture."
George King, "That's Ruff", 2010 - a timeless classic.
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