A March trip to Rodley Nature Reserve with excellent views of Snipe.
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Snipe
The highlight of this visit was getting good views of several Snipe.
In the first two here you can see some juicy “thing” that the Snipe has dug out from the mud. Click on the image to see it better quality.
Others
Tucked away at the water’s edge was a Water Rail. It kept itself reasonably well hidden, but then it came out of the reeds and at a fair rate of knots ran along the edge from pretty much one end to the other.
The calling Gull is, I believe, a Yellow Legged Gull that had been tucking into, what looked like, a duck wing. I had seen other birds pulling at a carcass there earlier.
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