How quickly they adapt

[trenchfoot 4,243]

With the foul weather the last few days, the ground is like bell metal and under a good covering of snow. I took my hardiest of dogs with me to check on some sheep for a neighbour. As usual, she was hunting up the reed beds, but I'm guessing the weather had driven most of the game to more sheltered ground. Not one to come home empty handed this bitch, I watched her switch from the reed beds to the drainage ditches . At first I thought she was hunting up fox that had used the drains for shelter from the wind but he reaction told me otherwise. She was hunting up snipe that had moved into the last vestiges of wet ground. She's never seen the land in this state before and certainly not in weather conditions like todays.

It never fails to amaze me how quickly some dogs will switch from their usual modus operandi to something more successful

[Busher100 750]

Dog put up a few snipe from brambles yesterday which left me scratching my head as they usually out on the marsh no where near cover