I heard about wc showing up around North Bay, get ready guys! (and gals, I am yet to meet female wc hunter or is it huntress? ;) )
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I heard about wc showing up around North Bay, get ready guys! (and gals, I am yet to meet female wc hunter or is it huntress? ;) )
I would say it's been local birds up till maybe two days ago (18th) in the London area. Just now starting to see birds displaying migration behavior even then small numbers maybe 5 or so. Tough to get a good count with the pup. But I've been running experienced dogs as well pretty much every day and haven't seen any major increases in numbers. Attachment 42404
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3 woodcock and 2 grouse yesterday. Only hunted about 3 hour.
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Friday. It was crazy in the local park (no shooting). Must have moved at lest 15 birds in 30 min.
Went for a hunt in the evening, not as good, but between 2 dogs moved around 10 birds.
I hunted them in shifts and it produced much better results, usually I hunt 2-3 together due to lack of time and cover.
I waited for sunset and saw 4 wc flying around.
October 22, north of Barrie, perfect conditions and temps, 4 hunters & 2 dogs, hunted all day: moved 6 WC and 5 grouse.
Saturday.
Around Newmarket, slim pickings, moved 4 wc
In GTA park - zero, they moved on.
Amarath. Moved at least 15 wc and 5 grouse. I got 3 wc missed an other 3 the rest not presented any shooting opportunity.
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Over 10 woodcock flushed this morning north of London.
Took dogs for a training run today, only found one wc.
Been out 4 or 5 times near Barrie, mostly local birds. It seems like number of local birds are very high this year. Went out again yesterday, some birds behaved like northern birds.