With the weather we're having, woodcock coming back are about the farthest thoughts from my mind!!!
I had a customer fly into Wausau yesterday afternoon. He's on his way up to South Range to buy birdseye hard maple. I picked him up at his hotel and he's got no coat. Didn't bring one. Wearing nothing but a sweater and this morning was below zero.
I have a flowering crab in the front yard. The cedar waxwings come in around this time and clean off the frozen apples, turning the snow underneath blood red. They haven't appeared yet, which tells me we still have some winter to live through. The early robin arrivals will go at what the waxwings leave behind and when I see them I know the woodcock are back, too. I think it's going to be a couple weeks, at least.