Woodcock nest...

[wooly]

I found this woodcock nest while looking for antlers today. The bird actually sat tight on it with me directly above it before she took off and landed about 40yds away. Scared the crap outta me because she was so camoflaged, I couldn't tell what she was even with my face right over her.... she's lucky I didn't have any bacon with me,lol

 

 

[Lawdwaz]

Well if that isn't the coolest thing I've seen in a while.  They are beautiful looking!

 

It must be tough keeping those little gems warm on some of these cold nights.

 

Thanks for the great shots.

[Pygmy]

VERY cool, Wooley...

Did I ever tell you about the time I was cooking up a gallon of woodcock gizzards, and....

[Dinsdale]

Cool find.

[Culvercreek hunt club]

VERY cool, Wooley...

Did I ever tell you about the time I was cooking up a gallon of woodcock gizzards, and....

A gallon? must have had a great season. You took about 3.5 million woodcock?...lol

[Culvercreek hunt club]

Wolly. How big are the eggs from them?

[wooly]

Wolly. How big are the eggs from them?

 

A little bigger than a quarter. A beefier version of a robin egg basicly.

Glad you guys could appreciate this find!

[verminater71]

very cool,

it's funny to think how many of us walk by this kind of stuff and never notice, great find

[Pygmy]

A couple of years ago I was hunting spring gobblers in Maine with a friend..

He was on his way to the woods one morning before daylight and had to stop his truck to allow a momma woodcock and several nestlings to cross the road in front of him.. He said the baby birds were perhaps the size of a half dollar, and were waddling across the road behind thier mother.. Pretty cool stuff..I wish I was there with him to see it...

The best woodcock show I ever had was when I was parked along a woods road just at daylight, listening for a gobbler to sound off on an adjacent hillside.

A pair of woodcock landed in the road near me, and I watched the male do his mating dance for the female, after which they both flew off together..

Being the romantic type that I am, I assumed there was a happy ending.

[Cabin Fever]

Very cool find! They sure are camo'd well! 

[apoallo]

very cool,

it's funny to think how many of us walk by this kind of stuff and never notice, great find

or worst yet how many of us walk on them and crush them and never notice at all

[coonhunter]

That is a lucky find. Not many people get to see a woodcock nest in real life. I know i spend as much or more time in the outdoors as anyone, and I have never seen one. Thanks for taking the time, like always, to post the pictures.