Hunted two full days near Hayward, WI this past weekend. Warm and dry as dust. Dogs had trouble getting scent. We hunted in t-shirts from mid-morning on. Bumped 30 birds on Saturday; 14 on Sunday. Didn't get shots at most....came home with six. Oddly we did not flush any woodcock. Possibly the local population migrated south with the cold front last week, and the front coming this week will hopefully bring down the birds from Canada. Ticks weren't bad, we did each find one or two crawling on us the second day.
