Sniping from the sidelines

A Snipe is one wader I can identify confidently. That’s clearly a very rash thing to say, since I’ve yet to get a photograph of a Jack Snipe and that may well confuse me.

Here’s a Snipe from my 1970s nature notebooks:

Snipe – forty years ago in my nature notebooks

Let’s hope I get a good view of a Jack Snipe soon.