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Every now and again when using my head phones, I hear the sound of a drumming common snipe. The sound that is made by it's outer tail feathers when it's diving. But looking around, there is no diving snipe.
Snipe Drumming (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xst3qhAVazU#ws)

I would suggest turning your threshold volume up might I suggest.............

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One of the funniest things I heard and saw was a Hen Pheasant.  I heard her startled call and looked up to see her RUNNING from a Fox.  Now I know where the idea of Walt Disneys Road Runner came from.  Only at the last minuet did she decide to fly, leaving Mr.Fox standing. Shame, I think he thought he was about to have his dinner.

Snipe are just as bad. They only decide to fly at the last second before you step on them. Heart in mouth job I don't mind admitting.

Val

I get this nagging sound from the BIRD i'm married to. I've tried all sorts of headphones but
none will drown out the background noise. over to you Geoff ;D ;D

..at least yours talks to you!  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Yes you could  try the new Chef-Nag-Phones ;)
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.................more of a growl most of the time I would say , even worse every 3 weeks or so , turns into a vicious snarl followed by murderous eyes  ::) :o ;D :D :(

 ;D ;D Geoff you'll make a fortune  ;D ;D

 :D :D :D :D :D trust you to say something like that Dylun  ;)

Great suggestions there Chef  ;)  :D
Can I ask what's that under the bird ? Road killed pheasant goes quite well with roasted parsnip & potatoes by the way  ;)

It's a wild boar and red pepper forcemeat ;)

talking of wild bore .... hows geoff today!!   ;D ;D ;D ;D   






he says ducking quickly

lol  ;D ;D

I guess i must apologise to geoff for my last comment, it was a rather common snipe at him!

 :D :D :D :D  sure he'll get you back soon enough  ;) ;)

never tried boar. They run too fast. Is it like venison ?

No it's pork so just the same as shop bought though larger boars have a stronger flavour ;)

Oh, thought it was more game like.

No not really though as i say the older (large) ones are a bit that way and you've got to be careful what time of year it is as like brown trout they take on the flavour of what they have eaten so late autumn is better as the diet is practically wholy nuts and acorns. ;)

You saying that, Geoff, reminded me of some pork we had in the shop years ago.  It tasted of fish  :o  Goodness knows what they'd been fed but it def. came through in the taste.

Best we ever had was during a swine flu outbreak. Hundreds of sucking piglets going for next to nothing. I cooked a whole leg and it was fantastic.


Val

I bet the fishy taste is when they use feed with high amount of fish oils in them. I've had meat that smelt like fish too. The cats liked it though  ;) 

Is there anywhere else than going to a butcher one can get game ? I'm thinking maybe a more whole sale like place.

Online these people have a good reputation...they even sell squirrel :o
 http://www.wildmeat.co.uk/index.html (http://www.wildmeat.co.uk/index.html)
Willis' of Cwmbran have or can get most game meats but are not cheap.
http://www.douglaswillis.co.uk/CW_Products.aspx?PID=564 (http://www.douglaswillis.co.uk/CW_Products.aspx?PID=564)
And for Boar and buffalo meat, I've always used these people, they sell everything from kangaroo and alligator too reindeer and locust.
Fosters Farm, South Barrow, Yeovil, Somerset, BA22 7LN. Tel 01963-440315
A friend of mine put Rudolph burgers on his menu one Christmas and got fire bombed ;D ;D

Thanks a billion for those links chef.  :)
Reindeer meat, now that is quality. Smoked dried reindeer or moose meat...yum yum yum  ;D Do you know if the reindeer is British or imported from Scandinavia ?

As far as I remember they came from Scotland.
I've never used or even heard of these people but their list is very impressive, they even sell horse yum yum :)
http://www.exoticmeats.co.uk/index.php (http://www.exoticmeats.co.uk/index.php)

Plus they have Snipe
http://www.exoticmeats.co.uk/snipe.html (http://www.exoticmeats.co.uk/snipe.html)

Camel sausages !! Now that IS special  :D
They're well over prised for the horse meat though, just under £20 a kg for steak. Do people in the Uk really want to pay that for horse ??? 

I would ;) purely because it's difficult to source but horse is always more expensive than beef even in France, when people get a cheap, tuff old steak on holiday and they say they think it was horse means they certainly haven't tried any, as horse is a far superior cut of meat.

I asked the butcher for a price on horse burgers he gave me 16-1 :o ;D

lol  ;D ;D

Regular bought horse from my butcher back in Denmark and the price was something like 1/4 of beef. But maybe then it wasn't such a rarety. Wonder how well horse would go on UK restaurants though.