Super snipe!
Jun 20, 2019
3 minutes
By Patrick Laurie.
Summer on the hill would hardly be complete without the sound of drumming snipe. The rush of that lonely, whooping call is enough to make your hair stand on end. Snipe seem to have bred well on our hill ground this year, and it is interesting that they should hold their own amid the dramatic decline of all other wading birds. We lost our golden plovers more than 30 years ago, and lapwings followed them soon afterwards when
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