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for marvel. Great quantities of plovers breed around 

 Heron Court, as well as snipes. While fishing for 

 pike in the early spring it is curious to hear the male 

 snipe as he flies on high like a swift, trumpeting or 

 bleating over his mate. The noise reaching the fish- 

 erman's ear is something between the bleat of the 

 sheep or the lamb and goat, and is made by the 

 wings of the bird in particular darts or dips of his 

 fli2:ht. The New Forest resounds with the noise 

 during that season of the year. 



