Pin-tailed Snipe, Common Snipe, Chinese Pond Heron
Shorebird numbers are up overall, but snipe numbers have been dropping. This day I found a paddy field holding about five snipe. Two were Pin-tailed Snipe, so I tried to get a shot of the tail feathers on the more approachable of the two. The other bird spent almost all its time hidden behind vegetation and I couldn't photograph it.
Pin-tailed Snipe having a stretch.
I thought this was the same individual as above, but it seems they had swapped at some point. Also a Pin-tailed Snipe. It was foraging in the grass along a paddy bund.
Another Pin-tailed Snipe. It was threatened by a White-breasted Waterhen and came out into the open briefly, but quickly retreated back into the grass.
This Common Snipe had a swollen joint.
Purple Heron with a little winter plumage still remaining."
A Javan Pond Heron in full breeding plumage.
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