EDMORE — The first two places we visited in our search of timberdoodles produced nada. And Chuck Riley was perplexed. “The other day we would have found five birds in here by now,” he said, halfway ...

DULUTH — Four woodcock that grew up in northern Minnesota are spending their winter basking in the Gulf Coast region sunshine and are checking in every five days to tell us about it. They are part of ...

Boozer went on point first. The 4-year-old English setter looked stylish, his eyes locked on something his nose told him was there. Then Scout, his littermate, came in from the other direction and ...

Bruce Trujillo and I had a double species hunt planned. Duck season ended and my Lab, Tinker, healed after having a skin tumor removed. I had seen some woodcock flying and other hunters had taken a ...

NORTHWEST OF ISLAND LAKE - Phil Johnson had shot the woodcock over his young Brittany's point, and he had seen the bird go down in the popples up ahead. This was several years ago, when Sophie, the ...