Woj
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Oct 13, 2009 10:27:01 GMT -5
Post by Woj on Oct 13, 2009 10:27:01 GMT -5
I went for a walk yesterday through an upland swamp area and I think I jumped out a bunch of snipe. They look a lot like a woodcock but I have never seen a woodcock in swampy regions before. Has anyone in here ever hunted for snipe and is it normal for them to be in swampy fields?
Thanks
Nick
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Oct 13, 2009 10:37:08 GMT -5
Post by trappermac on Oct 13, 2009 10:37:08 GMT -5
I've flushed woodcock many times in swampy areas, usually along the fringes of swamps where there are some alder, or other thickets. It seems like the wetter the area is the more woodcock I find when on their migration. Never been on a "snipe hunt"........(think there was an episode of Cheers where Frazier was taken on one of those hunts)...
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Oct 13, 2009 11:27:09 GMT -5
Post by 2labs on Oct 13, 2009 11:27:09 GMT -5
Probably woodcock, never seen a snipe. Woodcock like wet areas so I would say that is what you saw.
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Woj
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Oct 13, 2009 11:59:50 GMT -5
Post by Woj on Oct 13, 2009 11:59:50 GMT -5
Hmmm. .. . I assumed they were a snipe from the description of their habitat or a couple of websearches. I know we have a snipe season in New York. I have never seen a woodcock in this area. Maybe I will have to try to get one and take a picture and see what it is. There are no open woods anywhere near these fields, which lead me to believe snipe as well. Thank you guys so much for your help.
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Oct 13, 2009 14:46:23 GMT -5
Post by steinea286 on Oct 13, 2009 14:46:23 GMT -5
I know woodcock love wet soggy ground as they LOVE eating earth worms. I haven't heard much about snipe at all though and I would think that many of the wood cock have already migrated through with the weather. I guess its hard telling not knowing...
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Oct 13, 2009 15:25:24 GMT -5
Post by fingerlakesfur on Oct 13, 2009 15:25:24 GMT -5
I'd be willing to bet woodcock...they are all over our area Nick
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Oct 13, 2009 15:39:38 GMT -5
Post by Itrapny on Oct 13, 2009 15:39:38 GMT -5
My vote is for woodcock too...all the snipe that I've seen are right in the water (well the edges) while duck hunting. I jumped many woodcock in swampy upland habit over the years.
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Oct 15, 2009 7:11:49 GMT -5
Post by fingerlakesfur on Oct 15, 2009 7:11:49 GMT -5
another give away...woodcock fly kind of like a butterfly
snipe have a more direct, bee-line flight pattern
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Oct 15, 2009 8:03:29 GMT -5
Post by 2labs on Oct 15, 2009 8:03:29 GMT -5
Go and shoot a couple and find out!! Bet their woodcock.
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Woj
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Oct 15, 2009 8:21:14 GMT -5
Post by Woj on Oct 15, 2009 8:21:14 GMT -5
Most likely. When I kicked them up the other day, they flew in a straight line and then just dropped out of the sky back into the weeds. MAybe I can get over there today and plug a couple.
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Oct 16, 2009 6:51:42 GMT -5
Post by flatiron on Oct 16, 2009 6:51:42 GMT -5
Nick , When I was hunting in the UK we shot over 100 snipe and woodcock in one day all from the same place. could be either but our snipe seem to be more of shoreline and marsh birds.
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Oct 16, 2009 10:45:16 GMT -5
Post by ecgreen on Oct 16, 2009 10:45:16 GMT -5
Come to my house, I'll give you a bag and a stick and send you out in the woods. Wait there and I promise a snipe will come out.
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Woj
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Oct 16, 2009 11:02:08 GMT -5
Post by Woj on Oct 16, 2009 11:02:08 GMT -5
Yeah heard that one before at camp. . . . .. . .
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Oct 16, 2009 16:57:54 GMT -5
Post by flatiron on Oct 16, 2009 16:57:54 GMT -5
I watched those Englishmen at a game dinner eat those buggars . They leave the head on and when through --------pick there teeth w/ the bill of da bird!
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Nov 3, 2009 8:41:25 GMT -5
Post by whistlerwhittler on Nov 3, 2009 8:41:25 GMT -5
My first introduction to the snipe was when I shot one that I had mistaken for a woodcock. So lately I’ve been paying more attention to them and over the last few years I’ve seen more snipe around than woodcock. They do like soggy fields, and I have flushed up to 4 or 5 from one little wet spot. They usually let out a hoarse sounding little bark when flushed. The ones I’ve seen tend to fly lower to the ground than the woodcock I’ve flushed. They don’t seem as pudgy as the woodcock and they have a dark and light checkered pattern on their plumage versus the woodcock’s mottled brown. The one I shot tasted a little muddy, probably from the worms and stuff it was rooting for in the mud.
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Woj
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Nov 3, 2009 9:29:52 GMT -5
Post by Woj on Nov 3, 2009 9:29:52 GMT -5
Sounds like what I saw. You can actually shoot 8 of them in a day, more than the woodcock limit.
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