Both Birdfreak and The Drinking Bird have posts up with thoughts about snipe hunts, and they claim that snipe exist! Oh, wait, what, snipe do exist? Why do so many things people learn about birds have to be false?
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
Wow, talk about coincidence.
Tis the season for Snipe hunts I guess.
Don’t forget this, erm, “classic” E,W&W post from 2006:
http://tai-haku.blogspot.com/2006/03/snipe-hunt.html
@Nate: Great minds and whatnot, right?
@tai haku: I think your description of that post is extremely accurate, “erm” and all. 😉
I forgot to mention; my traffic meter tells me that that post attracts a disproportionate number of clicks suggesting (to me at least) a lot of bewildered snipe hunters googling away for answers!