Painted Snipe at Banyule - 2 birds?

[S Cooney <>]

I wouldn't be too sorry, male or female, its a new bird for me and many
others who made the journey, long or short and finding a bird like that
is what dreams are made of!

Thanks, not only for your great directions, but also for sharing your
bird with us

Regards,

Stuart

At 22:00 1/11/01 +1000, you wrote:
> I guess I should publicly answer
> Michael's message of yesterday.  Last
> night I replied to him privately.  Apologies if people were misled
> by my
> posting of 25th October.
>
> You  will understand that, when I first saw the PS on the 25th I
> was
> enormously excited.  This was a new bird for me & I had only
> Pizzey with
> me.  I was also alone.  Looking at the book, it didn't appear
> at all
> like the female pictured - so I assumed it was a male!  I was wrong
> of
> course.  The experts then flocked to Banyule & now many, many
> excellent
> birders have since seen & confirmed that it is an immature
> FEMALE
> Painted Snipe.
>
> Sorry for any confusion caused.  Celia  : - (
>  
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