Saturday, September 13, 2008

Aren't snipe great ?



The two images above show the bird below the lighthouse at Flamborough on 13/9/08 in comparison below with the wing detail of a 1st winter Common Snipe that I caught in Mongolia in 2004.



http://www.arkive.org/species/GES/birds/Gallinago_media/GES029886.html

http://www.kolkatabirds.com/greatsnipe8al.jpg

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_-voYLUr2fyU/SEL8hG-iFgI/AAAAAAAAAE4/ei9FCxnw-oc/DSC00956.jpg

links for other Great Snipe images

2 comments:

tai haku said...

Wow - great shots, I heard conditions there weren't great either.

Mark said...

Hi Mark. It's a bit unclear, but are you suggesting that the Great Snipe was not quite as great as some birders would hope.

P.S

What went wrong last night :)