Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere

By Corey • November 18, 2009 • 4 comments

Both Birdfreak and The Drinking Bird have posts up with thoughts about snipe hunts, and they claim that snipe exist! Oh, wait, what, snipe do exist? Why do so many things people learn about birds have to be false?

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Corey

Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

4 Responses to “Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere”

Nate Nov 18th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Wow, talk about coincidence.
Tis the season for Snipe hunts I guess.
tai haku Nov 18th, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Don’t forget this, erm, “classic” E,W&W post from 2006:
http://tai-haku.blogspot.com/2006/03/snipe-hunt.html
Corey Nov 18th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
@Nate: Great minds and whatnot, right?
@tai haku: I think your description of that post is extremely accurate, “erm” and all.
tai haku Nov 20th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I forgot to mention; my traffic meter tells me that that post attracts a disproportionate number of clicks suggesting (to me at least) a lot of bewildered snipe hunters googling away for answers!