Article: An ebbing of autumn's upland tide. (woodcock bird population falling) (includes related article on preservation)

The hunt was well into its fourth hour when my shorthair's bell finally fell silent.

"It's about time," I said under my breath to the woodcock I imagined crouched beneath Sain's nose. "Where have you been all day?"

Squinting through the second growth until I located the rigid-pointing dog, I whistled to my friend Dave and nodded to the spot, leased to finally deliver at least one of the woodcock I'd promised him. We walked in on either side of Sam. I readied myself for the rising knuckle-ball flush of a woodcock. Instead, a ruffed grouse whirred off straightaway, hard and low, a reddish knee-high fastball in duck cover.

Too surprised to think ...

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