March is the month when I have seen woodcock in Central Park in Manhattan, doing a stop-over during their migration north. It's great to have them visit a park with 8 million people around it. A while ago, a friend of mine saw a woodcock walking around a garage in Manhattan. I used to live in Brooklyn (only a few million people there) and my German shorthair pointed a woodcock in our backyard. I have hunted these amazing little birds in the Fall for decades in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New England - wherever I have been able to go and chase them. They are a treasure here in the mid-Atlantic, where pheasant, grouse and quail in many areas are fast disappearing. They are also a wonderful rich feast, baked for 20 minutes or so with a couple of tablespoons of heavy cream.
