A few pictures

And from the looks of it Steve is such a conservationist he only shoots male wood cock too!

With as weird a fall as we had I'm not too surprised we didn't have a single flush during the season. BUT a week after, they had finally moved in when we made a pass through looking for quail.
 
correctly a full 50% of the time....

True Story......

Sadly that ones not one of mine......just an excellent close up shot of one that was sent to me......

Been too long since the last one of those thats for sure..did get a line on a guy that "says" that he's covered up with them in Florida this year....GUARRRRRUNNNNNTTTTEEEEEDDDD......got an invite for next Christmas.....be neat if it was true but I wouldn't be at all surprised if it turned out to be Dowitchers....or Barred Owls....orferal hogs for that matter......

I'll be hoping that its for real though.....and working on making sure that I'm right at least 50% of the time to keep my record intact.....

Steve
 
Dani,

Just so you know...LCD screens can be damaged by freezing temps...I do not know the specs for the Nikon, maybe you could find a range of operating temps in the manual. I ruined a digital point and shoot camera ( a Sony) I used for field work by exposing it to 10 degree temps while habitat mapping a couple of streams. Now I carry them in a pocket inside a jacket, not in the day pack. With you living in Florida I would assume no hazard....

funny about the snipe,,, I have never seen them more then in pairs or singles around here when in the fall...

Matt
 
Keep on messing with the camera and by next fall when the birds start flying, then you can have the time of your life. In the meantime, keep on posting those pics.
Al
 
A couple years back I got into a very inexpensive place to hunt that wasn't that great, but it was so close to the house that if I only had a little time, it was a nice place to kill an hour or two. Wood ducks and gadwalls, mostly, with a few odd mallards, a wigeon or two, some hooded mergs, and some teal.

The owners had cut over part of an oak flat that dropped into a tupelo swamp, and what grew back was beyond thick. "The boys" thought building a big blind in the open cutover would be the way to go...they were wrong, but the fun thing was that for two years there was a solid two-week stretch during the duck season where the woodcock would buzz out from the dry part of the thickets at first light and come over the blind and/or over our heads while we stood in the remaining timber.

I never had the heart to shoot...seemed a little unfair that I hadn't worked to flush them and was just taking advantage...but it sure was fun to watch them come fluttering past...
 
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