Bog Myrtle & Peat

Just worth noting that I heard the first drumming snipe of the year this evening on the Chayne – It was a lone bird, drumming intermittently over the course of five minutes before dropping back down to earth again. It is precisely a year to the day since I heard the first bird last year – I think that the last week in February is the standard for the Chayne. I heard a bird chipping last monday, so I had an inkling that there might be a shift in gear amongst the snipe on the hill.

Most of them haven’t come back yet, and I wonder if the birds that overwinter will stay or whether they move off somewhere else. Whatever happens, the drumming will be so constant in a few weeks that it will hardly even be worth mentioning.