Last Sunday I hunted a couple of the alder bottoms here in SEVT with three friends. Without benefit of a dog we moved 7 birds and took 1. That's not a big bag but the experience was worth every moment: the successful shooter was a twenty-something on his first visit to a woodcock cover.
The weather over the next week is forecast to be warmer than normal but I think the frosty mornings recently have given the birds a nudge.
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