Common snipe : next time round : RSPB Otmoor

A flock of Common snipe (Gallinago gallinago) - occasionally known as a 'wisp' of snipe - flying several circuits around the southern lagoon at RSPB Otmoor nature reserve, before finally deciding it's safe to land.
Location: RSPB Otmoor nature reserve, Oxfordshire, UK
Date: 29 January 2023 (early morning)
Flight clips are one quarter-speed slomo.
Filmed using an #iphone12pro attached to an Opticron field scope -- a technique sometimes known as #'phonescoping, a subcategory of #digiscoping