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One for you pipit freaks... (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter CJW
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Jane Turner
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I'll buy the second as a Wapit 
Got any more views of the first... and what was it acting like? Looks most like Mipit to me.
Got any more views of the first... and what was it acting like? Looks most like Mipit to me.
CJW
Hit-and-run WUM
Sorry Jane, no more photos it was a secretive little blighter - all the other pipits were out on the tide wrack but this one just kept grovelling around in the long grass at the edge of the beach and seemed loathe to go out into the open. But it gave a very distinctive call when it flew - if I described it, you'd get it straight away
Jane Turner
Well-known member
So it went buzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz . What happened to its head pattern and flank stripes? Its has got a good bill and looks like it might be wingy though..... er just checking.. it didn't go speeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze did it...?
Jane Turner
Well-known member
I bet! Had my first in the garden today... fly over - so very much less confusing
Jane Turner
Well-known member
Tree.... sounds like a short burst from an electric razor!
Hi Chris,
REALLY??I thought I'd come to grips with Tree Pipit ID based on the two I saw in Bulgaria and reference to photos etc!Your bird has the 'wrong' bill structure and colour,'wrong' flank streaking,far from classic head pattern,no hint of buff to breast/flanks etc!
While not suggesting anything,could the call have come from an unseen flyover Tree Pipit?If not,then chaos reigns!
The second bird looks like Water Pipit,but I'm not sure what to make of the prominence of the eyering...?
Harry
REALLY??I thought I'd come to grips with Tree Pipit ID based on the two I saw in Bulgaria and reference to photos etc!Your bird has the 'wrong' bill structure and colour,'wrong' flank streaking,far from classic head pattern,no hint of buff to breast/flanks etc!
While not suggesting anything,could the call have come from an unseen flyover Tree Pipit?If not,then chaos reigns!
The second bird looks like Water Pipit,but I'm not sure what to make of the prominence of the eyering...?
Harry
CJW
Hit-and-run WUM
Yeah, I know what you mean about the first bird Harry, which is why I posted it. But it definitely gave the classic Tree Pipit call a couple of times. There was a second more 'classic' bird present but that was about 100yds further up the beach.
I have no doubts whatsoever about the Wapit.
I have no doubts whatsoever about the Wapit.
Jane Turner
Well-known member
Tree/Meadow...I am 100% certain of ID on calling birds, 100% certain of ID on non-calling overhead birds... but as soon as they land in front of you...they get hard!
James Armstrong
Flowerpot Man
Speeeeeeeezzzze?
Jane Turner
Well-known member
James Armstrong said:
Red -throated Pipit... which looks like a streaky Meadow pipit but calls like well..
sppeeaaaazzzzzzzzzzeeeeeeee
Jane Turner
Well-known member
CJW said:
Almost forgotten what real ones look like
Hi Chris,
BTW,not fair that you should have TWO birds and I still haven't seen one over here!There's not exactly a large distance from the IOM to S.Ireland!
Harry
Thanks for that!While I don't doubt you for a second,I STILL can't really buy it based on the pic!Maybe the odd Mipit can impersonate the flight call of Tree?CJW said:
BTW,not fair that you should have TWO birds and I still haven't seen one over here!There's not exactly a large distance from the IOM to S.Ireland!
Yeah,looks really good for one,the eyering may be a photographic artefact?Mantle is nice and brown.
Harry
Jane Turner
Well-known member
I still think it looks more like a Hannafore related Pipit That bill is black isn't it?
That bill is black isn't it?
