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Steve Griffin: The woodcock is a little bird that occupies a big part of my hunting heart

The author thinks woodcock are the “best Mulligan bird around.” Here, an American wooodcock or “timberdoodle” demonstrates its spring courtship dance. (Stock photo)

Three times the Michigan DNR’s wildlife division asked me in an email for my thoughts about woodcock. I’ll answer, but I wanted to review what I think about woodcock, first. And what I think is: It’s hard to think of anything so small that occupies such a big piece of my hunting heart.
The first gamebird I ever shot was a woodcock, a long-billed Midland County missile that posed a puzzle when it tumbled from the sky and seemed to disappear. It was my first time wrestling with game gone missing – probably hit, maybe dead, certainly now unfound and a burden on the conscience.

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