And So It Begins

Monday Thicket and I started off the woodcock season with a trip to Piney Creek.  The cover is still hellish thick and Thicket found only one woodcock which I missed.

 

 

Piney Creek

 

 

Back at the truck. Hot tired, but happy.

 

 

 

Tuesday was Emma's turn and she didn't let me down.  We hunted the Church Hill covert and the woodcock were there.  She found most of the birds in scattered wild pear thickets.

 

Her first point produced a double flush which I missed. Then I settled down and dropped the birds in her next two points.

 

 

The day started to heat up so we called it a day. We moved a total of 7 birds in 2 hours, all native birds. It will probably be several more weeks before we see flight birds.