Snipe , Hen Harrier, flock of goldfinches and a crazy primrose.

It was a beautiful sunny afternoon and after chopping enough firewood for the rest of the week I decided to take a hour off for a walk through the marshland and woods to the rear of my land. I was rewarded by seeing a hen harrrier hunting just over the length of some furze bushes, a rare and magnificent sight. I will have to inform the local wildlife ranger because hen harriers are ultra rare in my locality, I haven't seen one since the early seventies. As I approached the edge of the forest I noticed what I thought was a primrose blossomed on a bank and went to investigate and accidentally flushed out a snipe from it's hiding spot in the sedge grass. It waited untill I neary step on it before it burst out and darted off, it really startled me and the old heart was pounding for a few minutes. Sure enough there on the bank on the forest edge was a primrose in flower, that can't be natural! can it?
On the way back a flock of about 20 goldfinches flew into a blackthorn thicket to roost, I'm sure there must be a proper collective noun for a flock of gold finches but I have never heard of it, must look it up.
Anyways it turn out a quite eventful ramble.