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- Torrential rain drenched Dartmoor, especially the path to Gibbet Hill, creating a muddy landscape.
- The season is bleak and empty and favored for winter walks where snipe encounters are possible.
- The snipe camouflage makes them hard to spot until they take off, zigzagging into the air.
- In the UK, about 75,000 pairs breed in spring and summer, with winter numbers exceeding 1 million as European visitors arrive.
