Mallorca..Blacktailed Godwit? (1 Viewer)

[Mcnswiss2]

sorry bad photo
seen today

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello,
no its a Common Snipe. Please note:

• the right barring to the flanks
• extra-long bill (eliminating Jack Snipe)
• the right head-pattern of horizontal stripes, including a broad pale one at the lower ear-coverts and a dark one below from the chin to the neck (unique to Snipes) and a broad supercilium, bulging above the lores

 

[Butty]

You can't readily see it in these photos, but the legs will have been hugely shorter than a godwit's.

 

[Mcnswiss2]

Thanks Guys