senatore
Well-known member
Popped down to my local patch yesterday morning ( Marsh lane in Warwickshire) mainly because it was a nice bright morning.
Saw the resident Stonechat from the first hide which was a nice start but it was not tilll I got down to the second hide that I got a really good spot.I quickly scanned the scrape and saw nothing of great interest so I checked out the area of partly flooded reeded and grassed area to the side of the hide and quickly spotted a partly hidden Snipe about 10 metres away.
It was resting and not moving but I was encouraged because I could see that there was a dark stripe along the centre of it's crown.Was it a Jack Snipe?One had been reported sometime ago.
I had to wait 30 minutes before it moved and then it showed it's smaller beak and obligingly started to bob up and down as it began to feed.Yes a Jack Snipe and in the open and pretty close.WOW !!!! I had seen one before at Titchwell from the Parradine hide but it was a long way away and it was other birders who identified it as a Jack Snipe.This one was mine.
Has anyone else seen one as close as this?
Max.
Saw the resident Stonechat from the first hide which was a nice start but it was not tilll I got down to the second hide that I got a really good spot.I quickly scanned the scrape and saw nothing of great interest so I checked out the area of partly flooded reeded and grassed area to the side of the hide and quickly spotted a partly hidden Snipe about 10 metres away.
It was resting and not moving but I was encouraged because I could see that there was a dark stripe along the centre of it's crown.Was it a Jack Snipe?One had been reported sometime ago.
I had to wait 30 minutes before it moved and then it showed it's smaller beak and obligingly started to bob up and down as it began to feed.Yes a Jack Snipe and in the open and pretty close.WOW !!!! I had seen one before at Titchwell from the Parradine hide but it was a long way away and it was other birders who identified it as a Jack Snipe.This one was mine.
Has anyone else seen one as close as this?
Max.
