RE: Snipe.... [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

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Subject:	RE: Snipe.... [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
From:	"McLaughlin, Duncan MR" <>
Date:	Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:06:21 +1000

 Terry wrote:
"..Yes I think the first record of this Snipe is quite remarkable.....In
my youth  during the early sixties,I was a keen shooter of Quail and
used to be friends with a group of Braidwood shooters one of whom took
me to shoot Snipe....He opined with a wealth of practical folklore to
support him that Snipe generally arrived with the first full moon in
October....since then I have seen the odd one in September,but August is
very early indeed..."
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Hi Terry

Yesterday a Latham's snipe was flushed, by a horde of Natural Sequence
Farmers, from a reedy/rushy weir at Jillamatong, just outside Braidwood.

Cheers
Dunc

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