Snipe hunting

[fishhawk]

Any snipe hunters on here? How common are these birds in Ontario, what's there choice of habitat? What method do you use, dog, walk up. I've hunted woodcock many times but have only seen snipe a few times, I here they taste a bit better then woodcock.

[rick_iles]

There are about 25 species of snipe. The majority are protected.

https://www.google.ca/search?q=snipe...&client=safari

[fishhawk]

I am talking about the common snipe found here in Ontario for which there is a open season.

[rick_iles]

Yea, we call them timberdoodles!!!!

[kickingfrog]

Snipe and woodcock are two different species.

[finsfurfeathers]

Snipe a marsh birds bit harder to hunt sometimes they while frequent flood pasture where hunting them is a bit easier. Hard to pattern as not as predictable to pattern as woodcock. In my opinion hardest to hit target out the. Funny thing you need steel for snipe yet lead for woodcock. Oh ya and its not like the snipe hunt from cheers episode.

[gillshot]

The edges of lakes,and swamps that had the thin pencil reeds growing in them was always where we used to find them. Walk along the shore in a couple of inches,of water till you put one up, don't shoot right away, they twist and turn on the flush but then level out

[Fox]

Yea, we call them timberdoodles!!!!

Woodcock, AKA Timberdoodle - https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/...aurameyers.jpg

Common Snipe - http://ontfin.com/Word/wp-content/up...9/07/cosn3.jpg

Different birds, the woodcock lives in the bush, eats lots of earth worms, the snipe is a marsh bird.

[hollywood]

I had a good hunt a few years back....walking across a pasture which had about 1 inch of water. I was grouse hunting and crossed the pasture to get to the next woods...my dog started flushing them. They were fun to shoot...smaller than woodcock as tablefare. I have also shot them while sitting in a duck blind out of boredom.

[vom Dufenshmirtz]

I never shot a snipe in 16 years in ON, hunted them in Europe though, they're uncommon here, to say the least, there's not a lot of proper habitat, most of ON marshes were drained for farming. People hunt them in the American south east.