Bird ID please taken in the UK (1 Viewer)

[Voodoorising]

Can any one ID this bird please

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello,

belayed welcome to Birdforum!

With an appearant all black bill and black legs I might be tempted to consider a Rock Pipit. But a very interesting thread came into my mind again:

Help with Pipits - UK

I've been finding pipits really difficult to tell apart, so far I've been counting them all as Meadow but wondering if I have any Tree amongst them? Here's a few of the best photos I've managed, would appreciate any confirmation from people who know these birds much better than I do! Pipit A...

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Thanks again Andrew and all! And with this in mind I think its a Meadow Pipit:

• complete lack of a malar stripe (yes, breeding plumage?)
• well defined contrasting streaks to the mantle
• pure white edges to outer tail
• I think at least a bit of streaking/spots to the flanks should be visible here, despite bad angle to judge this
• complete lack of an white eye-ring is bad for a Rock Pipit???

But I have never seen a Meadow Pipit with pure, nearly jet-black legs like here. No offense, but I think this might well be enhanced by phtographic circumstances and post-processing? I see a picture with just the right amount of sharpening to produce an asthetic pleasant interesting picture of a bird, especially to look at it on a screen. So an excellent portrait with an unsharp, not distracting, natural background, a sharp detailed bird, everything is there. Tfs! (But this doesnt help with ID here, no offense again).

Conclusion? Thanks Andrew once more: its a Meadow Pipit imo.
And can you add date and location please?

 

[KenM]

Here’s a lightened version…

 

[Voodoorising]

Here’s a lightened version…

Thanks to you both with your Identification, I have attached and unprocessed jpg straight from the camera. I may have been a bit heavy with the raw file and not noticed.