Yes, people have been sent out on fruitless snipe hunts, but there really is a bird called the snipe. In fact, there are 26 species that go by that name, all in the bird family Scolopacidae. Matthew, who started the “spot the nightjar” series, sent this “spot the snipe” photo. I’ve put the extracted picture below the tweet so you can enlarge the picture by clicking on it. So SPOT THE SNIPE!
The answer will appear at 4 p.m. Chicago time.
Jack snipe don’t half sit tight. This is the phone angle on one. pic.twitter.com/hOEbWOHXlT
— Ronald Surgenor (@RonaldSurgenor) November 27, 2021
The photo. This one I’d consider “very difficult.” Do not cheat and look HARD. Count yourself lucky if you get it!
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Oops! I don’t have the button 🙁
I found it, but yes, it’s hard.
My snipe candidate is facing the top of the picture. I keep seeing human faces in the water, and I’m not talking about the reflection of the photographer.
Very hard, but when you got it you can’t lose it anymore !
Found it — I think.
Fairly sure I found it.
I think I’ve got it. If I have, then once you spot it, it is unmissable.
Definitely a tough one. Jack Snipe do indeed sit very tight and fly up from literally beneath your feet. They certainly live up to the ‘cryptes’ part of their name Lymnocryptes minimus!
That was a tough one! Found it after magnifying the photo, but each time I shrank the pic to the posted size I couldn’t discern it at all. That despite knowing just where to look. Much shorter bill than our North American species, Wilson’s Snipe. Which I suppose will be losing its common name, if the folks in charge have their way.
I did not know about their camouflage from above. Very clever, those snipes.
I’ve got a reading on it I’m fairly certain.
Found it but I was initially fooled by two other stripey things.