UK Half Snipe
@HalfSnipe
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Account to raise awareness & promote the study of Jack Snipe in UK. This project is kindly supported by @tjfocus_ & @waderquest Profile pic PULSAR view of a JS
Largely unknown even in 2023
Joined November 2022
After a rather uninspiring start despite a few late Sept birds, things have picked up this week. By 22/10, a total of x37 birds from a doz sites, with several locs still blank. 20 birds from x9 sites in core study area in NZ35/34 The regions max is 9 at Rspb Saltholme Image by MH
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Guess who’s back? 👀 Cuckoo Bank, Staffordshire treated us to an amazing night with 4 Jack Snipe and 1 Skylark ringed! 🌙 Plenty of other visitors too, including Common Snipe and Woodcock. What a night! 💫 #BirdRinging #returnofthejack
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A dull, cold morning, so naturally have to check for jack snipes! 3 present this morning on a local site and one not too tucked away for a change. They do look like strange little aliens to me @HalfSnipe @LondonBirdClub #londonbirds
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A great comparison
Good comparison between Jack Snipe and Common Snipe taken nearly in the same place on the Wader Lake a couple of days apart @WWTWashington
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Jack snipe and water pipit still about at Staines moor, showing not everyone thinks winter is quite over yet! @LondonBirdClub @freebirdnewsuk @HalfSnipe #londonbirds
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Brilliant
After taking so many pics of well camouflaged Jack Snipe over the last couple of winters it was a nice change to photo this one amongst some greenery @HalfSnipe
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Question - Jack Snipe are a green conservation species, however we know little about them. @StaffsWildlife Cuckoo Bank, we regularly record between 40-100 Jack Snipe each visit on specific fields. Has anyone else recorded 100+ Jack Snipe on any other day or night site in the UK?
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Three Jacks thermaled up at Cors Caron this morning @HalfSnipe @SurveysThermal
A lovely warm morning in Tregaron, Ceredigion with @ArfonWilliams4 . Highlight being 3 Jack Snipe found using the thermal imager. Gadwall, Redshank, Lapwing, Curlews on site + 3 Great White Egrets. Earlier 7 summer plumaged Med Gulls and a GC Grebe at Llanrhystyd.
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Bright but cold morning on patch. 43 species @birdtrack 5 Common & 3 Jack Snipe, nfy, on the marsh takes #PWC2025 to 83/88. @Lincsbirding @lincsbirders @PatchBirding @BTO_Lincs @LincsWildlife @LincsNaturalist @HalfSnipe
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More of the Jack Snipe. This video shows how it reacts when I make my visible as I go to collect the camera. Note how it flattens itself against the water.
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Sneaky
Watching Jack Snipes feeding and bobbing is not easy as they freeze as soon as they see you. By setting up my camera and operating it via my ipad from a hidden spot I am able to get an insight into their normally secret lives.
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Nothing worse than someone “pinching” images & not giving credit 😬😄👍🏻 A stunning image such great fieldwork 🙌🏻
@tonymcguire1966 @HalfSnipe @RingersWm 🤣 it's the floor of our fieldstation. So no worries regarding our appetite😉
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We pinched this of the West Midlands lads FB Thermal site @RingersWm A Rose amongst Thorns if ever we saw one 😊
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One from last year,Jack snipe in freeze mode at Parkgate.Right outside the Boathouse pub.
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Oh no! What stupidity! If Wash barrage goes ahead it will be an environmental disaster. If it doesn't go ahead, this will be a huge waste of time and money, as NGOs fight the plan. Background to scheme: https://t.co/g8ATbdNcr7
I cannot believe that this insane proposal for a "Wash tidal barrage" is being considered It would be absolutely devastating for nature Any potential, naive investors should understand that it will be fiercely resisted by @WildlifeTrusts & many others https://t.co/cNz59Wnfed
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We all love birds, but how well do we know them? What bird is this? It’s certainly got some moves.
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A familiar tale Another small remnant of rough wet ground threatened by a housing development in central Durham Images by DB
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“There are some hiccups!” 🤣 Watch till end as they say 😄
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Been 6 years now Still expect to bump into him “Colin Jack Snipe Wilson” Pic 1 is one of the last we have of him, we found Jacks on the ground that day near Hetton Bogs @DurhamBirdClub
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A couple from Houghton Birder whose probably seen way more jacks than most He’s finally took the plunge & joined those of us of the Thermals. Last one is point blanker years ago when Thermals just kept ya warm ☺️
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