After checking the bottle trap at Cullaloe (nowt) and getting bored with the constant snow/ice/rain diet I decided to head for a piece of marshy field that I've had my eye on for a long time. It's a wide area of presumably boggy ground dominated by Juncus and I was sure it would be stuffed to the gunwhales with snipe. In particular I wanted Jack Snipe. Thus it was that 5MR prompted me to finally park up and head in that direction.
In short, it provided hee-haw (Scottish rhyming slang), although a flock of Long-tailed Tits did go past along with Pheasants all over the place. Moss Plantation is an area I have never actually gone into, which is somewhat bizarre given how much attention Dalgety Bay has got (that's the edge of the town on the west/left of the map). Also considering the boy's scout hut is at the west end of it. Maybe he'll go back to meeting in the hut and I'll give it a proper bit of a bash. It has an extraordinarily broad drainage "ditch" in it with Glyceria, Lemna etc. The plantation itself is full of pines and birches as well as the typical Rhododendrons. Parking probably makes it a piece of cake to set a moth trap up in, too.
The knobbly bit that sticks "up" is Willow carr with lots of water I'll no doubt step into at some point. I briefly entertained the idea that a Woodcock would pop up in front of me but it didn't. No worries about getting that anyway - probably gettable in all months of the year if you try and they breed at Cullaloe.
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