Is it time too start the woodcock watch thread?

[vom Dufenshmirtz]

This weather! poor little guys

[Sharon]

Terrible for all birds starting their breeding season ! The chipmunks have emerged this week too. Wrong week !

[jaycee]

Terrible for all birds starting their breeding season ! The chipmunks have emerged this week too. Wrong week !

Your chipmunks must be old and need their sleep, they have been out around our place since the good weather set in last month and are busy beneath the bird feeders.
We are only about 10 to 12 minutes southeast of Cambridge.

[maplevizsla]

Took a stroll with my boy Titan in my village Friday night and veered off to a dead-end road to the lake. Halfway to the lake he slammed on point looking towards the ditch and held his point as I’m scanning the layout for a bird...wouldn’t you know! I’ve never seen a woodcock that close before couldn’t believe how it was not skittish. Just 2 weeks prior we’d seen one fly away from a creek in the ditch. Only seen 2 here in Muskoka personally, the third was a dead one in our backyard in the fall we assumed was migrating.

[fishhawk]

I’m still seeing woodcock passing thru the London area.

[huntervinni]

This weather is not good for any ground nesting bird. Lets just hope mother nature finds a way!

[finsfurfeathers]

This weather is not good for any ground nesting bird. Lets just hope mother nature finds a way!

Not too worried just yet. Early enough that if the first nest is unsuccessful there is still good time for a second nest. Just need the weather to cooperate and the trend seems to be getting back to normal after this storm passes.

[vom Dufenshmirtz]

you fellas are missing the point, it's not about nesting, it's about survival.
Euro woodcock can survive frozen ground for about one week, I assume ours are similar.
While grouse sit in a tree and wait for snow to melt the woodcock will simply perish.

[finsfurfeathers]

you fellas are missing the point, it's not about nesting, it's about survival.
Euro woodcock can survive frozen ground for about one week, I assume ours are similar.
While grouse sit in a tree and wait for snow to melt the woodcock will simply perish.

Survival is a given think they are more resilient than you give them credit for. Heck the doves just had a successful hatch so it couldn't be that bad for them.

[jaycee]

you fellas are missing the point, it's not about nesting, it's about survival.
Euro woodcock can survive frozen ground for about one week, I assume ours are similar.
While grouse sit in a tree and wait for snow to melt the woodcock will simply perish.

Grouse are also ground nesting birds.