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Old Thursday 25th March 2010, 12:19   #1
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How many Jack Snipe?
So whilst out birding today, I came across 6 Common Snipe, but how many Jacks?


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Old Thursday 25th March 2010, 12:48   #2
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Old Thursday 25th March 2010, 12:48   #3
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Old Thursday 25th March 2010, 12:51   #4
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where?
I hazard a guess somewhere in the photo

With some imagination, one might be near the very bottom.
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Old Thursday 25th March 2010, 12:52   #5
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Old Thursday 25th March 2010, 12:54   #6
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Old Thursday 25th March 2010, 13:27   #7
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0 obviously, it's just a cruel trick devised by Nick
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Old Thursday 25th March 2010, 14:06   #8
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0 obviously, it's just a cruel trick devised by Nick
I would agree...
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Old Thursday 25th March 2010, 14:15   #9
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... jack.

C'mon, where are/is they meant to be?

(or in french), 'Where's Le Snipes'?



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Old Thursday 25th March 2010, 14:47   #10
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You just need to do some CSI style image enhancement!
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So you came to the same conclusion as me then, there were none, better off imagining them.

Seriously, I spent ages scanning empty marsh in the vain hope of connecting with little old Lymnocryptes. Plenty of little patches of snipe poo and footprints though.
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What a great thread guys............it's really made me laugh! BF at it's funniest. I first looked at Nicks picture..........looked and looked and thought, I'm really missing something here, then read the rest of the thread . You've really put a smile on my face.
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Old Thursday 25th March 2010, 20:09   #15
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So you came to the same conclusion as me then, there were none, better off imagining them.

Seriously, I spent ages scanning empty marsh in the vain hope of connecting with little old Lymnocryptes. Plenty of little patches of snipe poo and footprints though.
Sounds like you were on a snipe hunt...
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theres jack all in that photo
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I couldn't find any either, but I thought it was the beer goggles. Was going to look again tomorrow but perhaps now I don't need to!!!

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where I live there are about twenty times more Common than Jack Snipe around, so assuming the same ratio, if you saw six Snipe on your walk you would have seen 0.3 Jack Snipe
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where I live there are about twenty times more Common than Jack Snipe around, so assuming the same ratio, if you saw six Snipe on your walk you would have seen 0.3 Jack Snipe
If only they were as common as that (or visible!) since I've lived in France, I've seen a grand total of 0 Jacks, last one I saw in the UK was in 1999!
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