Painted Snipe (male)

[Bibhav Behera]

Common Snipe from Mangalajodi Odisha (Dec 2015)

Canon EOS 7D, 420mm
SS 1/320 (+0.3 EC)
f/5.6
ISO 400

Full Frame image. Critiques welcome.

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice. Good that you got the eye in clear. How are the sightings in Mangalajodi? Thanks for sharing.

[Samrat Sarkar]

Bibhav ji

Nice to see this bird..I think this is a male painted snipe...Please check...lovely image showing its habitation...

Samrat

[Bibhav Behera]

Thanks. You are right about the ID. Painted Snipe (male) it is.

Mridul,
Saw way lesser no of birds than I had the last time I had been there. Maybe in Jan there might be more migrants.

[Bibhav Behera]

Thanks Samrat. You are right about the ID. Painted Snipe (male) it is.

Mrudul,
Saw way lesser no of birds than I had the last time I had been there. Maybe in Jan there might be more migrants.

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Good to see this image of the House husband...:001_smile:
TFS
Roopak

[Subhash Shrivastava]

Nice capture. I could never find it in Telngana regions. Thanks for sharing.