Hunters blaming global warming for messing up their hunting.
In recent years, hunters appear to have been missing their target during woodcock season - without even firing a shot.
With winter seeming to arrive later each year, some hunters are concerned that the birds aren't migrating through the area during the hunting season, and only arrive after the season is over.
Paul Brook, owner of Woodman's outdoor sporting goods in downtown Norway, says the late winter is to blame.
"I don't know if it's global warming or what, but the last four years the woodcock hunting season has missed the migration," Brook says.
In Maine, woodcocks can be hunted in October when their migration pattern typically draws them through the state as they flock south from Canada for the winter.
"Lately, the migration misses the season," Brook says.
"There have been people out deer hunting and they've seen the birds come in," Brook explains. "But it was two weeks after the woodcock season ended."
Although it may be easy to say that winter is arriving later than it has in the past, Brook offers some more concrete explanation.
"What makes the woodcock migrate south is their food. Their diet is worms. They probe for worms on the ground and, as the ground freezes, they start migrating south," he says.
With the ground not freezing until later in the season, the woodcocks have no reason to begin their annual southerly shift.
Woodcock feeding habits aside, Brook says he's noticed other signs that the winters have been delayed in recent years.