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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jack harnser" data-source="post: 3324597" data-attributes="member: 87329">Ploughing today I was followed by a massive flock of Rooks, Jackdaws, small flock of Starlings making a welcome return, inevitable Black Headed Gulls.  But it shows that the Rooks are still coming to their old fields in numbers.The roost is still as busy as ever.I also had a first in my 45 odd years of ploughing.Right in the middle of this dry grassland that I was ploughing, well away from water I spotted a strange creature crawling through the grass only inches from the tractor wheel.  At first I thought that it was a rodent but then I saw the two golden lines down its back and realised that it was a Jack Snipe.  It had its head so low in the grass that I could not see its bill.I have never seen a Jack Snipe before, here or anywhere else.  It seemed such a strange place for it away from water and also fearless of an eight ton tractor roaring by inches from it.I never saw it fly and it was not there on the return run.Anybody know any more about these birds?</blockquote>