Texas Woodcock

[Scott Chapman]

Loaded up the dogs and headed 6 hours east into the Texas Piney Woods for a first ever attempt at finding the elusive Texas woodcock.

There are several National Forests and WMAs in East Texas that supposedly winter some migratory timberdoodles.

Here is a picture of our results. We put up 7 birds in about 4 hours of walking. Not a huge number of birds as we found all 7 of those birds concentrated in one strip of woods probably 20 acres in size. We walked a lot of other unproductive
thickets.

The boys handled the 16 gauge Trojans well and accounted for 3 birds.

All in all a successful maiden voyage.