I'm sure that the biologists employed by the RGS do everything they can to dispel "Legend and lore" but is has been my experience that a larger number of woodcock seem to alight in my stompin' grounds immediately following a full moon late in October or early November. Whether this has coincided with some sort of weather phenomenon, I never noticed but generally speaking if the weather was severe enough in Maritime Canada or Downeast Maine to cause a mass migration, I can assure you that them "Little Russet Fellers" kept right on flying well beyond my coverts. 
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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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