With snipes, it’s all about the beak. This is the Magellanic snipe, just one of many snipe species in the world. But back to that beak, which is highly complex and can distinguish between many different delicacies beneath the soil such as larvae and other food sources. Apparently extra sensory filaments within the beak are what allow the snipe to be so discriminating. Photographed on Sea Lion Island in the Falkland Islands. Nikon D800, with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 400, f/5.6 at 1/2500th of a second.
I thought Voldemort killed Snipe at the end of Deathly Hallows? Now he’s back, licking grubs out of the dirt in South America? Eh, this whole Harry Potter universe is really falling apart.
A wonderfully detailed photo: that is some carpet he’s walking on! It looks like the sedum in my garden. The only snipes I’ve seen have much longer legs–this one is a cutie!
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With snipes, it’s all about the beak. This is the Magellanic snipe, just one of many snipe species in the world. But back to that beak, which is highly complex and can distinguish between many different delicacies beneath the soil such as larvae and other food sources. Apparently extra sensory filaments within the beak are what allow the snipe to be so discriminating. Photographed on Sea Lion Island in the Falkland Islands. Nikon D800, with Nikkor 200-400mm lens (at 400mm) ISO 400, f/5.6 at 1/2500th of a second.
I thought Voldemort killed Snipe at the end of Deathly Hallows? Now he’s back, licking grubs out of the dirt in South America? Eh, this whole Harry Potter universe is really falling apart.
A wonderfully detailed photo: that is some carpet he’s walking on! It looks like the sedum in my garden. The only snipes I’ve seen have much longer legs–this one is a cutie!