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Wired up
delia todd

Wired up (Anthus pratensis)

Making our way slowly along the road home, I spotted this Meadow Pipit sitting on a fence wire.

The dark background is actually a hill covered with pine trees!
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Habitat
Moorland
Location
Drimmie, Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland
Date taken
19 July 2020
Scientific name
Anthus pratensis
Equipment used
Nikon Coolpix P900 Birdwatching mode
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KC Foggin
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A very lovely image of this Meadow Pipit D!

How do they not hurt themselves landing on those spiky wires?
 
delia todd
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KC Foggin said:
A very lovely image of this Meadow Pipit D!

How do they not hurt themselves landing on those spiky wires?
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LOL I've no idea KC - wish I knew their secret.

BTW first attempt at uploading this picture failed. Just wouldn't do anything. So I went into a new tab. Just put the picture and title on, which worked. then edited to add everything else. Don't know what was going on there.
 
Jonno52
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Good shot Delia! I was thinking along the same lines as KC, it's odd to see a bird more at home on grasses etc parking itself on barbed wire. But birds always seem to manage: their feet are clearly much more versatile than ours. It recalls this heron from 2016.
 
delia todd
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Jonno52 said:
Good shot Delia! I was thinking along the same lines as KC, it's odd to see a bird more at home on grasses etc parking itself on barbed wire. But birds always seem to manage: their feet are clearly much more versatile than ours. It recalls this heron from 2016.
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Thanks John. Somewhere I've got a picture of a cormorant on a power line. Can't remember if I uploaded it to the Gallery or a thread I did of that trip.
 
KC Foggin
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delia todd said:
LOL I've no idea KC - wish I knew their secret.

BTW first attempt at uploading this picture failed. Just wouldn't do anything. So I went into a new tab. Just put the picture and title on, which worked. then edited to add everything else. Don't know what was going on there.
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I'm sure we will be running into random glitches from time to time.
 
Danielbirdwatcher
What a sweet picture of him perched on the barbed wire. Isn't it interesting how the backgrounds come out in our pictures? Suddenly the trees and hill are just a colored blur. I had a roof one time as a background it made a beautiful blue blur that enhanced the photo.
 

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Category
Britain & Europe
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delia todd
Date added
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Comment count
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Image metadata

Device
NIKON COOLPIX P900
Aperture
ƒ/5.6
Focal length
143.0 mm
Exposure time
1/500 second(s)
ISO
280
Flash
Off, did not fire
Filename
BF Meadow Pipit.jpg
File size
35.5 KB
Date taken
Sun, 19 July 2020 3:35 PM
Dimensions
900px x 690px

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