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 …
Snipe
I’ve never had a good view of a Snipe before. This time it’s different. We’re in a south-of-London park with a kind …
The Lesser Yellowlegs and the Snipe
I love this photograph. The light is poor. The colours are dull. The composition’s nothing special. It’s the poise of the little …
Sniping from the water’s edge
I wouldn’t have known it was there unless someone had pointed it out to me. Even then I couldn’t see it until …
Snipe – forty years ago in my nature notebooks
Forty years ago I drew a Snipe. I was 13 years old and probably copied it out of a book I borrowed …