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    Country Diary

    Dec 30, 2020 3 minutes
    Patrick Laurie

    Woodcock arrived in Galloway with a bump. Many of the best covers grew busy with birds in the space of a few moonlit hours and it was thrilling to find the leaf litter wriggling with life when dawn returned.

    The annual migration of woodcock is always a signal moment in the year and it marks the shift from autumn to winter. Spotting a few new arrivals in the truck headlights one evening as I checked on my

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