Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 18:55:51 -0600 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Re: Snipe Display MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Folks I too have seen the Snipe begin their courtship display. It was at Allen's Fresh, Charles County several years ago. The two birds did a little dance, facing each other and bobbing their bodies. They did not take to flight but had tails fanned and with heads cocked and walked around in a circle facing each other. Another beautiful encounter with nature. George ----- Original Message ----- From: Danny Bystrak To: Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 7:57 AM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Snipe Display > In a message dated 3/7/00 8:21:13 AM Eastern Standard Time, > grackling@WORLDNET.ATT.NET writes: > > > Just as a sidenote, as far as I know, Common Snipe which have a > > similar display to the woodcock don't do it on migration . > > > Hi Paul, > > Actually, they do very rarely. Behind my house there are many snipe > wintering and they have about a 5-10 minute period in the morning that they > fly around "retching" but don't actually display. BUT, every now and then, > as spring approaches, one just gets so swept up in the excitement that he > does a brief display -- and it is most impressive. Also heard one do a full > display up at Finzel in Early May many years ago. Naturally, i couldn't help > but think it might be breeding there. But no follow-up. > > danny bystrak > bristol > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================