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  1. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    Well then.. is it back...? been missing this thread. I found this today http://home.earthlink.net/~nicky-davis/pipit2.jpg not as Ovenbird/Bluethroat-like as I recall the Hannafore Pipit being.... but it did remind me of it!
  2. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    Thanks Darrell... I take it it isn't growing its tail!
  3. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    Just for a laugh, here is a blow up, probably further than the pic could take it, of my most striking littoralis type of the the autumn.
  4. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    What if it gets a warm buff flush on its breast and loses those back stripes! Then there will be loads of panicking.
  5. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    I certainly am... I will come and see it... might give a bit of time to see if it get any summer plumage or grows a tail though...
  6. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    Not exactly no! I've concluded that it doesn't look like anything I've seen :)
  7. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    Darrell. Thanks for the video clips? Without prying too much, were the measurements shown on the video the only ones taken? Its frustrating as hell - I can see that the tail pattern is assymetric in the video... it even looks like it might be regrowing and I think.. there is a whitish tip on...
  8. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    Well jolly well go out there and clinch it in the field :)
  9. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    That would be great... I'll do just that. What are your memories, was it assymetric?
  10. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    I must go and see the new pics, I was getting really frustrated about just how few pics there were.
  11. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    Did you find any more pics of its tail?
  12. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    is it still about Darrell?
  13. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    For reference here are the eye-rings of all the Rockits I have pic of.
  14. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    Some of the tail feathers do look a little different in length, like it might be growing some, though its hard to tell without an even spread
  15. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    Darrell, is there a photo or description showing the tail more clearly?
  16. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    Look at the tail on the bird. The pattern is assymetric, or at least appears so. The left-hand side shows that dusky distal web, typical of Rockit and nothing at all in the second outermost..... the right hand side appeas to show a gleaming clean white web and ther is just a hint that there...
  17. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    Actually it doesn't look that worn at all...just a little dishevelled. Look at the outer primaries... very very fresh feathers and the tail is incredibly tidy for a 1st year bird...
  18. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    And the eye ring... I need to check Rockit again...but this really is unbroken.
  19. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    No white at all on the second outermost TF I see. That only leaves Rock doesn't it?... Presumably littoralis. and being female and small would account for the bill. It looks like a 1st year (contrast in the GCs). Any sign of uniform growth bars in the tail..they do look quite fresh feathers?
  20. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    I hope we can see some close ups!
  21. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    Just as long as it doesn't get a taste for Pipits!
  22. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    Yes..I think pale legs is the best way to pick up putative littoralis. Darrel's bird is however much paler than any I've seen Perhaps I should have said a good way to be entirely accurate!
  23. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    All this looking at pipits prompted me to dig out the description of a bird I saw about 8 years ago... I had no idea what japonicus looked like at the time, tried to turn this into rubescens..failed and in the end wrote it off as a funny pipit! I was sure it was a Water pipit from behind...
  24. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    Here are some more easterly Water Pipits. http://alsarhan.net/Arabic/Water_Pipit.htm This is an eastern one...but prob a japonicus. Its japanese at least! In any case a new pic! http://www.kingfisher.jp/alcedo/bird_g/page4/water_pipit.jpg presumably a rubescens...
  25. Jane Turner

    Buff-bellied Pipit

    Here are the other pics online... (that I have found) a japnoicus/rubescens.... that looks hugely elongated http://www.martinreid.com/Image%20files/PIPIT1E.jpg The same bird turns into a Bluethroat head on! Look at the white lores! http://www.martinreid.com/Image%20files/PIPIT1B.jpg both...
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