Carlisle & Edinburgh last week (1 Viewer)

[Deb335077]

Please help with these
1 & 2 taken in Carlisle
No. 3 Taken just south of Edinburgh

thank you

 

[Prestdj]

mallard songthrush and meadow pipit nice photos

 

[dave598]

Very nice shots

 

[Richard Dale]

I'd go with tree pipit. Very thin flank streaking, strongish bill, and hind claw appears relatively short (though it all gets a bit indistinct and blurry, meadow pipit hind claw is typically about as long as the hind toe).

 

[Prestdj]

I'd go with tree pipit. Very thin flank streaking, strongish bill, and hind claw appears relatively short (though it all gets a bit indistinct and blurry, meadow pipit hind claw is typically about as long as the hind toe).

corrected tree pipit even though the hind claw is long

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello,
what a nice pitfall picture of this Tree Pipit. When I first saw this picture. I saw this monster hind claw, disragarded the features that gave the bird a Tree Pipit jizz and agreed with Prestdj with a Meadow Pipit.
Now I have time to look at this bird more closely again: at first I thought the hind claw is really monster, but after downloading the picture, I realised that Richard is right: the hind claw is short and quite straight, but there is a pale whitish line present on the trunk that acts as an extension in both hind claws (below the left claw. in form of an ID-friendlier smeared patch). If you enlarge the picture, you see a slight kink, that makes this clear.
What an excellent pitfall and thanks to Richard for mentioning this. Without your help, I would have forgotten this picture and got this bird wrong.

 

[Deb335077]

thank you all for your input, I'm quite happy with Tree Pipit, it is a new one for me and only got it by chance driving past.