You shoot plovers Eddie?

we used to hunt them, yesterday my driveway was full of woodcock!!!!, first ones I've seen in a few years, but way early

That’s good to hear as the woodcock up where you are at normally come here. One of my favorites to hunt.

I live close to the premier number one woodcock hunting spot in the world. Early in the morning in the parking lot at the check-in station, for the game management area and waterfowl refuge, it sounds like a EU meeting with all of the languages and accents. A lot from the UK and France, and a sprinkling of other countries. My friend who ran the refugee retired and owns 40 acres of some of the best woodcock hunting available, and his gate is right by the parking lot, surrounded by refuge. We get a lot of looks when we enter the area everyone wants to hunt, but is posted.

It’s a hunting that is slowly disappearing down here as everyone wants to tear the marsh up in a mud boat and shoot ducks. I love duck hunting but there is something about pulling out a worn L.C. Smith to walk the levees for snipe or dropping some #8’s in a open bore A.H. Fox for bécasse des bois.

Used to shoot a lot of them. Numbers are down the last number of years, and haven't shot one in a year's. In the 90's there was that many of them, you could drop four or five with one shot.

Think I am going to fix up another snipe/rail hunt this weekend!