woodcock

EastTyrone

I lpive in good woodcock country, but since i am in univeristy i have given control of my pup to my younger brother who is 14, he said he was hunting the dog through heavy cover and whn bushed and as he said "he flushed a snipe out of the bush" i told him the obvious, snipe live in open marshy ground etyc but he said to me that the bird flushed was bird with a long beak pointy wings, white belly and flew just like a snipe, he also said he flushed a couple a couple of days after that, could it be a possibilty it was a woodcock or is there any other birds that could be mistaken for a snipe/woodcock? or would it be too early yet for the woodcock?

landkeeper

some woodcock are resident all year i was watching one at dusk a couple of weeks ago, lovely birds one of my flavourites :cool:

Spunk84

Flushed a monster of a woodcock a few weeks ago, thought the same as you but check online and they are residents here all year

stevoman

Yep they are definitly residents here and doing and breeding well but 95% of our wintering woodcock are still migrants.

deerhunter1

EastTyrone wrote: »

I lpive in good woodcock country, but since i am in univeristy i have given control of my pup to my younger brother who is 14, he said he was hunting the dog through heavy cover and whn bushed and as he said "he flushed a snipe out of the bush" i told him the obvious, snipe live in open marshy ground etyc but he said to me that the bird flushed was bird with a long beak pointy wings, white belly and flew just like a snipe, he also said he flushed a couple a couple of days after that, could it be a possibilty it was a woodcock or is there any other birds that could be mistaken for a snipe/woodcock? or would it be too early yet for the woodcock?

I have often flushed snipe out of cover