On Friday 6 March 2009 I was driving to work along Libertina Amathila Avenue when I passed a dead bird lying in the middle of the road. "Another dove" I thought and made nothing more of it. Work was as dreary as could be on a Friday morning when the phone rang and Mark Boorman told me of a Greater Painted Snipe he had found in the middle of the road close to his house. I mentioned the "dove" that I had seen the same morning, but that evidently was no dove as Mark had gone to the trouble of stopping and picking up the dead bird. As I had my camera with me to document the Gray's Lark chicks reported on earlier in Lanioturdus, I dashed over to his house to photograph this beautiful bird.