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(Message started by: carmen on Apr 2^nd, 2004, 7:49pm)

Title: Common Snipe 扇尾沙錐
Post by carmen on Apr 2^nd, 2004, 7:49pm

144 Common Snipe 扇尾沙錐
Penfold Park, Sha Tin 沙田彭福公園
02/4/2004
Ziess diascope 85T*
+ Nikon CP4500
(photos taken by my dad)
We have never seen them in Penfold Park before. :o
http://kite.center.kl.edu.tw/vbb/attachment.php?s=&postid=103689
http://kite.center.kl.edu.tw/vbb/attachment.php?s=&postid=103695
http://kite.center.kl.edu.tw/vbb/attachment.php?s=&postid=103696
http://kite.center.kl.edu.tw/vbb/attachment.php?s=&postid=103697
http://kite.center.kl.edu.tw/vbb/attachment.php?s=&postid=103700
http://kite.center.kl.edu.tw/vbb/attachment.php?s=&postid=103703
http://kite.center.kl.edu.tw/vbb/attachment.php?s=&postid=103704

Title: Re: Fantail Snipe 扇尾沙錐
Post by Owen on Apr 2^nd, 2004, 8:46pm

good... real close~!!

Title: Re: Fantail Snipe 扇尾沙錐
Post by carmen on Apr 2^nd, 2004, 11:12pm

Thanks Owen!
carmen :)

Title: Re: Fantail Snipe 扇尾沙錐
Post by Koel_Ko on Apr 6^th, 2004, 3:26pm

Excellent photos! And I think rather these are Pintail Snipes, to add to the excitement. :D

Title: Re: Fantail Snipe 扇尾沙錐
Post by carmen on Apr 6^th, 2004, 6:20pm

Oh really? that will be great if they are pintail snipes.
but how to tell the differences between pintail snipe and fantail snipe? :-/

Title: Re: Fantail Snipe 扇尾沙錐
Post by Koel_Ko on Apr 6^th, 2004, 8:19pm

Please note the thin eyeline (thicker in fantail), the 'pale panel' on the forewing created by a nice patch of creamy mottled feathers (blackish-chestnut in fantail)  :)

I have my reserves though, as the tail looks a bit too long for pintail (protruding beyond tertials). The shape seems also to favour Swinhoe's, as the bill is not THAT short, and short bills are what pintails have ... but let's say, they are non-fantails.

Title: Re: Fantail Snipe 扇尾沙錐
Post by carmen on Apr 8^th, 2004, 1:11pm

Thanks, Koel!
It seems that they have gone.
carmen ;)

Title: Re: Fantail Snipe 扇尾沙錐
Post by carmen on Apr 8^th, 2004, 8:36pm

Oh!! I saw one of them at 5pm today! ::)
But it was quite shy.
carmen