Snipe seeking in Singapore
When: February 2019 Weather: Hot 25C
Nikon P900 and Sony A55 with 70-400mm x2TC
With reports of the painted snipe and pin-tailed snipe in the Neo Tiew area of Singapore and my little 10 yr old niece from Scotland wanting to bird, we set off at 7am to the area where they had been sighted…
Traipsing along a little canal side, we looked for the other photographers and we started seeing some activity in and around the water where the canal turned and disappeared…
a wood sandpiper on a mudbank from afar
Wood sandpipers foraging
and on the muddy shore, a little ring plover
little ring plover
little ring plover
egret
and then from behind the greenery the unmistakeable features of the painted snipe appeared!
painted snipe and wood sandpiper
front view
back view
Painted snipe : photo by Emily Chong
And then in a…
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