File:Snipe Runs Across the Foreground - Emma Louisa Turner - 1907.jpg

English: Snipe Runs Across the Foreground. From the article A Nesting Reeve in Norfolk, published in Country Life, volume 22, 27 August 1907, pages 231-233. "Reeve" is the name for a female Ruff, Calidris pugnax. "On the 19th [of June, 1907] I was out at 6 a.m, and waited until eight o'clock. Just as the reeve returned, a snipe ran across the foreground when I dropped my shutter. A moment later, both snipe and reeve stood side by side, erect, intent on the spot from which the sound proceeded. Had I waited the fraction of a second later. I should have secured a rare and doubly interesting picture, whereas the snipe now appears merely as a speckled heap in the foreground. "