Painted Snipe at Kelly's Swamp

["martin butterfield" <>]

Fantastic sighting Steve.  It was difficult enough to see through a very good 'scope (not mine), when I knew exactly where it was. 

 

Martin

 

On 10/14/07, Steve Holliday <> wrote:

Prue and I were lucky enough to see a male of this gorgeous bird at Kellys earlier this afternoon. We found it while scanning the reedy shore opposite Cygnus hide for crakes. It was about 10 metres to the right of the fence that comes down to the waters edge.  We were able to get rather better views from the bank next to Bittern hide. Take a scope if you can - it was a bit too far away to see well with binoculars.

 

A new bird for me!

 

cheers

 

Steve

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