Place: RSPB Marshside, near Southport, Merseyside
Date: 25 February 2018.
Place: Bousta, Sandness, Shetland Mainland
Date: 13 June 2018.
Place: Hagdale Horse Mill, Unst, Shetland Islands
Date: 16 June 2018.
[Gallinago gallinago, Family Scolopacidae, Order Charadriiformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common snipe]
The sound of the snipe (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Patrik Åberg)
Distribution and sightings of the snipe across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).
Marnix's Bird Gallery 