Wonderful to watch and film this 'bobbing' Jack Snipe in the south Mainland today. Video by Hugh. More on our series of award-winning small group wildlife holidays at http://www.shetlandwildlife.co.uk/holidays/wildlife.htm. | Shetland Wildlife

It wouldn’t be Winterwatch without a bobbing jack snipe 😎 No one’s sure exactly why jack snipes perform this behaviour, but it’s thought it must be something to do with flushing out their invertebrate prey from the mud below! This fantastic video was taken by one of our viewers Paul Richards, who said, “I recently managed to video this beautiful little jack snipe which had been hiding away for many hours. I would love to see it bobbing to some appropriate music. Perhaps you have some ideas of w