This morning at Mason Farm, in addition to the usual winter birds, two
of us were treated to a ~30sec. flight of a very long billed, round
bodied bird that never made a sound. We both got the bird solidly in our
binoculars and were able to each keep it there for the duration of it's
rather slow but erratic flight. At the time, we both individually
decided that it was an American Woodcock. .....
Since then, I've been looking in some other guides, and think that the
shape was perhaps more like a Common Snipe.
in my experience during daylight Snipe generally flush when they