This story, “Winging for Woodcock,” originally ran in the October 1946 issue. AS I WAS DOZING over the Sunday paper, in that blissful state of semiconsciousness that follows an active day and a good ...
Woodcock may be the strangest North American upland bird. They have upside-down brains, eyes on the backs of their heads, long probing beaks, red breast meat, and white leg meat. Their ...