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Whether it is early I cannot say but today I saw skein after skein of Pinkfeet heading in a north westerly direction. In total I must have seen five or six hundred.

 

How odd then that others have been reporting an influx of woodcock in the last week or so.

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It has been very cold on the continent, Scandinavia and the Baltic, hence the influx into the British Isles.

 

The pinks on on their way to their Scottish grounds in preparation for the jump to Iceland and eastern Greenland.

 

Don't know how true it is but i was told by an old keeper that woodcock gang up in warm woods ready for the trip home, that might explain the reported influx of woodcock, if true!

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I shot left and right woodcock the week before last in Wales. They were without doubt the largest woodcock I have ever seen. Sadly the left was on the Monday and the right the following Saturday so I don't get to join the illustrious club.

 

I probably saw 15 or so in two days on our syndicate's annual woodcock trip and every one that was shot was huge - my sense from discussions with the keeper is they have had fewer than normal this season

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I shot left and right woodcock the week before last in Wales. They were without doubt the largest woodcock I have ever seen. Sadly the left was on the Monday and the right the following Saturday so I don't get to join the illustrious club.

 

I probably saw 15 or so in two days on our syndicate's annual woodcock trip and every one that was shot was huge - my sense from discussions with the keeper is they have had fewer than normal this season

 

You are mistaking woodcock for melanistic hen pheasants.

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Oop norf the ducks geese are all over the fields on farms etc as there is that much standing water still, they don't need the marshes and estuaries foreshore etc. Been a very poor washed out season for our local clubs. Not many flighting there staying in the fields as they have no need to travel.

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