This beautiful snipe was spotted busily foraging for food by Ranger Tony at Sturt Pond near Lymington Keyhaven Marshes Nature Reserve, filmed through his telescope. You can see it gently probing the grass and mud with its flexible, sensitive bill to find worms, insects and tiny crustaceans 🦀🐛🪳 Calling snipes “brown” underestimates the beauty of their plumage: a stunning mix of black, gold and chestnut, perfectly patterned for camouflage, with a stripy head and short greenish-grey legs. They’r

Wilson's Snipe Sounds, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology