A snipe at the Kingfisher Hide

Snipe are notoriously difficult to get good images of. First of all they are difficult to see as they spend their time feeding in the reeds, and secondly they are very shy birds so usually any sighting is of a distant bird. This week my luck changed and on seeing a pair of snipe feeding in nearby reeds they did not fly away but fly towards the hide! Managed several images with my 400mm lens, these two are probably the best: