Quote Originally Posted by that_fjell_guy View Post
...What do you think...?
Difficult to say without seeing the bird myself. I've only ever knowingly seen a Jack Snipe twice; once at pre-dawn in the headtorch beam whilst walking through a marshy area, the bird flew up and dropped again a few yards later, and another time whilst walking through a reedy pasture one flushed up in front of me then dropped again a short distance away. I think the short flushes and lack of call are indicative of Jack Snipe whereas the larger Common Snipe tends to flush up high and fly a long way whilst calling its warning sound.