Last night might have been a record for peenting woodcock around the house. They were everywhere. I counted at least ten separate birds from my front yard. We are re-establishing a prairie area in the 5 acre field adjacent to our yard, and apparently it is just to their liking (at least three were using the field). It was quite the show for about 30 minutes last evening. Good to have the little guys back in Missouri! I hope to get the pup out this week for some "practice."
We have some birds that nest here in North Missouri, and we see them flighting during the later stages of summer. I've found nests and chicks as early as the 2nd week of March and well into late April during turkey season. We can hear peenting into May some years.
They are amazing creatures.
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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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