The birds are in.

Double Barrel

The Woodcock are here in good numbers. Put up a couple of dozen plus today and shot 8, all out of heavy cover.
No phone or camera.:mad:

steyrman2

great news looking forward to trying a few places over the next week for woodcock

jwoods

was out for woodcock last weekend shot 2 and missed a good few moe.

ormondprop

Double Barrel wrote: »

No phone or camera.:mad:

atleast you had a gun:D

Birdnuts

Seeing more and more here too - numbers will increase further as the bitter weather from the East tightens its grip:)

T223

Hopefully get out for a few on sun,met a few last weekend but only managed to hit 1
Roll on the frost and snow!!

mallards

We had our first woodcock two weeks ago in Tyrone, only flushed three though. Went to the same spot and flushed eight last weekend. Should be plenty this weekend but I won't get home to find out. Next weekend, they will get my full attention!

Mallards

tfox

Was beating for a friend of mine west of Ballinasloe on Thursday. He had a group of 6 French over for 3 days woodcock shooting. First cover showed a few but after that they were hard found.

Total bag was 7 woodcock, 2 teal and a pigeon. Should've had 2 myself except I was walking along with gun broken and empty ( rather not shoot a bird than shoot someone else )

Arrived there at first light to go for a quick stalk beforehand, got nice pricket which i dressed and hung out of a tree before going beating. When we stopped for lunch one of the french ladies went into the wood for a call of nature followed by a shrill scream and ran back out again !! She'd squatted down only to look up and find a fallow carcass hanging out of a tree looking right at her

Apologies for the pic, taken on my phone