Bliss and I hunted the Church Hill covert earlier this week. Started off good with a solid point on a hen pheasant who held for the flush.
But the day went downhill from there. The covert has full of recently stocked pheasants who kept running from Bliss's points and soon she was chasing and flushing them. We finally found one woodcock in a stand of hawthorn. It held nicely for Bliss but at the flush it dodged behind a hawthorn tree and escaped without a shot fired.
Today I traveled north with Bliss to the Blandsburg covert only to find it covered with an inch or more of snow and stocked pheasants everywhere. After several bump and chases I decided to try the Black Snake Ridge covert that I had found last spring. Covered nicely with aspen, maple and locust it looks like good cover but no birds were found.
Tomorrow if my knee permits me I'll take Thicket and try the Shawnee Creek Covert.
Time is running out with next week being the last week of the season.
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