Have you never seen the snipe eat?” I had not. “He favors the earthworm. He stands there with his head cocked, listening — do you follow me? And when he hears the worm crawling there beneath his thin ...

Resistance, like many stealth games, is about learning patterns and systems and exploiting them, but when you are there as the sniper hunting them, you both have to do some more creative thinking.

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The BBC met the team behind the fascinating project. The jack snipe is a small and secretive bird and I'm squelching through the site of a former South Staffordshire colliery trying to spot one.