Resident woodcock

patdahat

last week I was out for a drive around at dusk 22:20 and was driving through a bog with forestry in it and couldn't believe it when a woodcock got off the middle of the road. just wondering if any of you have seen woodcock at this time of the year?

rabbit assassin

patdahat wrote: »

last week I was out for a drive around at dusk 22:20 and was driving through a bog with forestry in it and couldn't believe it when a woodcock got off the middle of the road. just wondering if any of you have seen woodcock at this time of the year?

Not all woodcock migrate. Some live here full time, quite a number actually.

snipe02

once but was nearer may was out buying a dog and same thing woodcock goes flying past up until then i actually thought they only came for winter and left again

charlie10

friend of mine out in limerick during the week in limerick county and said he met two:eek:

garyc007

I was out with the dogs a few weeks ago in a forestry and we met 2 on our travels

Spunk84

Yea there's a massive one that is in the field beside the house that doesn't seem to go anywhere ????? Everyday I could flush it and every day its seems to be there . Lovely looking bird

J. Ramone

I see them regularily throughout the summer. I even came across a couple of chicks last year.

I emptied out some pond mud in some hollows on a woodland path and was surprised to see regularily spaced probe marks in the dried mud some time later. I wondered was it woodcock and confirmed it recently when one of the mud patches had three woodcock feathers on it.

J. Ramone

I put up three young ones at my feet this afternoon, they only flew about 20 yards. They were in the same cutaway coupe as the clutch I saw last year.