painted snipe

["Terry Bell" <>]

thw two terriers ventured to the wetlands this morning to find several coggers already there with their equipment. Although we missed out at the long log site one lucky member did flush a snipe out the section containing several water filled  furrows partly covered by mounds of dry grass at the swamp edge whilst walking towards the Cygnet hide.Unless someone can claim there are also Latham's snipe  present, I feel justified to claim a painted variety sighting as the flight and white wing feathers were unmistakeable. Terry  B.