Ie MID-APRIL 
occupied by a pair of full snipe, which flew 
off aS we approached in their typically 
erratic way; it is this flight which makes 
them so hard to shoot ; the male bird was 
‘Rkchee, kchee’-ing as usual. Not only is 
this note very characteristic of full snipe, 
but the crescented wings once seen are easily 
recognized. We could not find the nest of 
this pair, though we felt sure they had one, 
like the couple we found the week before 
upon the cleared patch. I was able to 
photograph the nest of the latter—this time 
with four olive-brown speckled eggs. They 
struck us at once as being very large for the 
size of the bird. It was a rounded hollow 
in the ground, about three- inches across 
and the same in depth, with a lining of moss. 
The nettles round it grew up in a week or 
two and quite concealed it. In Guernsey I 
had often as a lad (gun in hand and with a 
dog) scoured likely spots for snipe, and con- 
sidered myself fortunate if I found even one 
after a long tramp of many miles. To come 
upon a nest almost within ear-shot of Bow 
