I once, while looking for snipe with charges of small shot in the barrels, roused a fine hare, and fired without apparent effect.
Some of the reaches of the brook, where the ground was flat and boggy, used to resemble a long narrow lake, extremely shallow, with the deeper current running yards away from the shore: and here the snipe came in the winter.
Do you know why I raged at you when you mentioned that little snipe you call Mr. Philip?
On the way I shot a couple of snipe and also saw a number of teal, wild geese and kulan (grey crane), but they were very wild and I could not get near enough for a shot.
This is the more remarkable as the great snipe is at other seasons a particularly silent bird, and indeed is rarely heard to utter a sound of any kind, usually rising in silence.
A kindred ornithologist and myself were seated at the edge of a wall overlooking the field when he became aware that a snipe was standing fearlessly in the long herbage a few yards from us.
Whether the Wilson snipe actually do resort to the so-called "suction" method of procuring their food is a question still undetermined in my mind.
With such excessive shooting all through the fall, winter, and spring, is it to be wondered at that the snipe have decreased in numbers?
The snipe that breeds in Iceland and the Faroe Islands has been separated, under the name faeroeensis, as subspecifically distinct from the bird breeding in Great Britain and in continental Europe.
Upon investigation 8 or 10 snipewere found together in a little cave in the side of the arroyo that was partly hidden by bushes so that they were well protected from any storm.
Snipe must have been exceedingly abundant 50 or 60 years ago, as the oft-quoted achievements of James J.
Midway up the little slope, on a dry bit of ground, a few stalks of scrub-birch partially shielded the jack snipe from view as it sat on the nest by the side of a cloudberry plant.
The young snipe in its dark and richly-colored natal down is one of the handsomest of the young waders.
Mr Snipe looked up towards his senior with a puzzled expression, as if he waited for information--"What has Miss Sophiar's shoulders to do with boiled mutton and turnips?
While Mr Pitskiver stepped up stairs, Snipe was going over in his own mind the different grammatical meanings of the words, "I'll give it you.
Daggles drew up, Snipe slunk back to hold the door, and Mr Pitskiver retired from the eyes of men, and entered his own hall, followed by his retainers.
So saying, the Ticket walked hurriedly away, and Snipe stood with the note still in his hand, and looked dubiously at his companion.
A knock at the door interrupted the colloquy, and Snipe once more emerged from the lower regions, and admitted the two fair daughters of his master.
Take eight snipe for a moderately sized pie; cut them into neat pieces.
Put half the pieces of snipe in a circle upon the forcemeat, and place a little ball of forcemeat upon them, put in the rest of the birds and put a layer of forcemeat over all.
Stew the bones of the woodcocks or snipe to make the gravy, reduce it, and add a glass of Marsala to the broth and serve in a boat.
Fry the trail of the woodcock or snipein a little butter, and place on little rounds of fried bread and arrange round the dish.
The Sea-Lark and Sea-Snipe never quit the sea; their flesh may be eat, as it has very little of the oily taste.
The Snipe is much more common than the woodcock, and in this country is far from being shy.
THE SNIPE In appearance and habits the snipe is something like the woodcock, but it is considerably smaller, and is found in damp, marshy ground instead of in woods.
The male snipe is very fond of rising to a great height in the air, and there uttering his curious cry of "chick!
The snipe generally nests in the middle of a tussock of coarse grass or rushes, where it lays four buff or olive-green eggs marked with dark-brown blotches.
Then go back into the wood and set the snipe free.
Birds that feed on or near the water should be eaten fresh; so should snipe and some kinds of duck.
Snipe should be picked by hand, on no account drawn; that is a practice worthy of an Esquimaux.
Last night just at dusk, we saw several flocks of snipe or plover, small, brown, swift in flight, close above the water.
Many plover, snipe and some herons and even cranes I noted along the margins of the pools and streams.
The Common Snipe is no bigger than a Thrush, and has a bill longer in proportion than the Woodcock.
The most common species are the Common Snipe (Scolopax gallinago, Fig.
The Snipe is found in all latitudes in every part of the globe.
In winter snipe and woodcock visit those mountains and afford good sport to the human residents, but all have gone northward long before the summer visitors arrive.
That was their greatest pleasure, going off together after duck orsnipe along the Maryland waters.
Partridges whirred up in front of them, the snipe piped his shrill cry and hovered before them, then flew away unharmed.
The enemy were seen to be framing a practicable floating bridge from the kelaks, and Burnet ordered some of his best marksmen to snipe them.
He and his brother George are out shooting; a snipe gets up, Charles fires and the bird drops, but a deep wide ditch intervenes, and in springing across this obstacle the boy falls and breaks his leg.
I don't suppose you know that you won him over by letting him miss a snipe you could have shot.
The snipe had swung a little to the right in its swift flight, swerving in sharp corkscrew twists, and Murray's gun twice flashed.
When we were out this afternoon, a snipe got up in front of him and he let me have the shot.
These same sports catch snipe in long, light nets which they carry stretched out horizontally some two feet above the grass, so that a bird on rising as it passes overhead, flies into it and is at once secured.
Of course we kept them waiting, the sport was so good, but satisfaction at the total bag of some two hundred snipe did much to smooth matters over.
Snares of wire and string, ingenious traps of bamboo which impale the birds on wooden spikes, and wicker traps closely resembling the straw plaiting on bottles of olive oil, I have seen set for snipe and quail in various places.
Outside the lofty wall enclosing this park is a kind of common interspersed with marshland through which a small stream flows, and there I have bagged as many as ten couple of snipe in an afternoon, with an occasional wild duck.
Several ducks were scared away by my shots, but I here added half-a-dozen snipe to the bag.
Arriving at fields and cultivation after six or seven miles of horrid barren country, I dismounted, and flushed a snipe in some swampy ground, whilst a hare was visible running off in the distance.
