Another Pipit ID please (4 Viewers)

[Jane Turner]

Well without wanting to seem too argumentative - if that's a photgraphic effect - then so might be every other feature on this bird be, including the wing bars

 

[JANJ]

Well without wanting to seem too argumentative - if that's a photgraphic effect - then so might be every other feature on this bird be, including the wing bars

Would agree to that.
JanJ

 

[Jane Turner]

Been playing - not sure if it looks more like a Wapit or A Wagtail afte this - but there is a necklace of spots round a pale throat.

I turned down the contrast and the brightness and turned up the colour saturation a bit.

 

[London Birder]

nah, I think the wingbars are real ... the streak, sorry, maybe a crap monitor I dunno, but can't make out if it's real or not ... looks 'odd', very bold and isolated

 

[CyberDoc]

nah, I think the wingbars are real ... the streak, sorry, maybe a crap monitor I dunno, but can't make out if it's real or not ... looks 'odd', very bold and isolated

London Birder, when you say .....can't make out if it's real or not ...would you be referring to a trick of light or deliberate post-processing?

 

[London Birder]

cyberdoc,

not sure what 'deliberate post-processing' means...what I mean is that when I fiddle with colours and resize it looks like a photgraphics artifact as opposed to a real plumage feature (could be wrong) ...

when I reduce the gamma the 'gorget' becomes a little clearer also and looks like a juv/1st-wint wagtail