Bird of the Day — Wilson's Snipe, Nebraska 2022

3 snipe in the reeds

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Back in September we took a trip to Minsmere. While at the Island Mere hide a Snipe came wandering out of the tall reeds to take a look about.

A #snipe hiding in plain sight with the ubiquitous discarded #plastic #bottle, #victoriapark #Belfast.

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A couple from #victoriapark this morning; a #snipe and a #LittleEgret with a #stickleback.

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The snipes had been acting strange for days. Instead of staying in the wet meadows, their usual habitat, they sat in the village square, stoically, like statues. Something about it was unsettling. They were also humming an eerie drone.

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Photo: Common Snipe, coastal Alaska. Courtesy of the USF&WS National Digital Library.

Snipe — Kulic’kiiq
Kulic’kiit miktut, kesiin piturnirtut. – Snipes are small but they taste good.

The common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) is a shorebird found around Kodiak’s grassy coastal meadows, ponds, and fields during summer. This member of the sandpiper family breeds yearly across northern...
https://alaska-native-news.com/74992-2/74992/
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Lough Erne: Breeding #curlews return to Trasna Island
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd1rnlmndy0o

"The warbling call of the #curlew has returned to #TrasnaIsland in Lower #LoughErne. Conservationists are celebrating the first successful breeding #birds on the island in living memory... they worked to restore habitat to support the return of vulnerable species including the curlew, along with the #lapwing, #snipe and #redshank."

I counted at least 12 #Snipe roosting in the #reeds around the #lake in #victoriapark this morning.
This one was a bit closer than the rest.

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Lots of #snipe dozing around the lake in #VictoriaPark in #Belfast today.
How many can you see? I got eight

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Spot the #snipe !
Several of these lovely but perfectly camouflaged birds around the #lake in #VictoriaPark in #Belfast this morning.

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A sleepy #snipe on the bank of the #Connswater #river near #victoriapark in #belfast.

Shot on #Canon #EOS70D with 70-200mm lens and 1.4x #teleconverter.

Processed in #topazlabs #SharpenAI and #AffinityPhoto. Heavily cropped.

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Migration season is back
3 Bekassinen rasten im #Sültsoid. Früher auch mal Brutvogel dort, aber die letzten 7 Jahre konnte keine Brut mehr dokumentiert werden. #birds #BlickDurchMeinFernglas mit dem Handy durchs Okular geknipst #snipe

A distant shot of a small #flock of #snipe on the #lagoon at #RSPB #Belfast #WindowOnWildlife this morning.