{"id":10603,"date":"2025-12-30T19:34:55","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=10603"},"modified":"2025-12-30T19:34:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T02:34:56","slug":"wilsons-snipe-at-south-platte-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/30\/wilsons-snipe-at-south-platte-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson’s Snipe At South Platte River"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Last week, I made a trip to South Platte Park for some bird photography. During the winter months, many duck species can be found at this location. During a previous visit, some Kildeer were having some interesting interactions that I had witnessed. Maybe I would see something different this time?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On this day, Kildeer were wading along the sandbar and river side. There was another shorebird moving close to the Kildeer. With a long straight bill, this looked like maybe a snipe or a dowitcher?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Snipe With Kildeer, South Platte River.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

One getting home, I confirmed that this bird was a Wilson’s Snipe. I don’t recall seeing one along this stretch of the river previously. Both Kildeer and Snipe are well-camouflaged, especially against the sandbar and muddy shore. Easy to miss when they are not moving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I decided to wait and see whether the Snipe would move out into the water. Yes. And a captured this image with its long straight bill.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Wilson’s Snipe, South Platte River.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Soon both the Snipe and Killdeer were working along the shore, foraging for food in the mud.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Snipe And Kildeer, Foraging.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

I was watching and waiting to see what would happen. Unexpectedly, another Snipe (No. 2) came running in from the left hand side of this pair. I managed to capture one image of this second snipe with its foot raised in the air.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Wilson’s Snipe No. 2, South Platte River.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Again, I just watched and waiting until Snipe No. 2. Maybe it would head for open water?<\/p>\n\n\n

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Wilson’s Snipe No. 2 At River Shore.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Yes. And I managed to capture a decent reflection as this bird stepped through the water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What luck! Two Wilson’s Snipe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, I made a trip to South Platte Park for some bird photography. During the winter months, many duck species can be found at this location. During a previous visit, some Kildeer were having some interesting interactions that I had witnessed. Maybe I would see something different this time? On this day, Kildeer were […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2071,2067,2070,1932,28,25,2069,2068,1742,1020,306,2066],"class_list":{"0":"post-10603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general","7":"tag-foraging","8":"tag-killdeer","9":"tag-long-bill","10":"tag-mud","11":"tag-reflections","12":"tag-river","13":"tag-sandbar","14":"tag-shore","15":"tag-snipe","16":"tag-south-platte","17":"tag-water","18":"tag-wilsons-snipe"},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pMatQ-2L1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10608,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603\/revisions\/10608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}