Meadow or Rock Pipit please. (1 Viewer)

[Earnest lad]

At Heysham, Lancashire UK earlier today I saw the attached bird on the foreshore. When I took the photo (it was poor light) I thought I was taking a photo of a Rock Pipit. However upon seeing the photo on the PC later, my doubts emerged. Please can anyone advise if this is in fact a Meadow pipit, or is it perhaps, after all, a Rock pipit?

 

[Alexander Stöhr]

Hello Earnest,
no you identified it right in the field. Its a Rock Pipit for me, too. Please note:

• dark, blackish legs
• dark, sooty grey overall colouration (enhanced by high-iso,coupled with a small sensor shifting the colour towards Rock Pipit?)
• many really blotchy, rounded streaks to underparts (in Meadow streaks are clear streacks, not rounded blops like here)

 

[Earnest lad]

Hello Earnest,
no you identified it right in the field. Its a Rock Pipit for me, too. Please note:

• dark, blackish legs
• dark, sooty grey overall colouration (enhanced by high-iso,coupled with a small sensor shifting the colour towards Rock Pipit?)
• many really blotchy, rounded streaks to underparts (in Meadow streaks are clear streacks, not rounded blops like here)

Thank you so much. With your help, I see that clearly now.

 

[KC Foggin]

Looks to be a Rock Pipit perched on a rock

 

[dantheman]

Looks to be a Rock Pipit perched on a rock

Hmmm, I'd say it was on a railing! (Now we need a photo of a rail on a rock)

 

[KC Foggin]

Hmmm, I'd say it was on a railing! (Now we need a photo of a rail on a rock)

That's what happens when you look at it from the thumbnail

 

[Earnest lad]

Looks to be a Rock Pipit perched on a rock

LOL