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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Howard King" data-source="post: 1584381" data-attributes="member: 28628">I spotted this fellow today on a patch of greenery along side a road as I drove past - it turned my head thankfully the roads are so quiet during Ramadan nobody ran into my back side as I came to a sudden halt.  Initially after I reversed up to it I thought I had a Meadow Pipit but the heavy breast streaking soon indicated a Tree pipit - It was fairly obliging working the grass in and out of the shade of the ornamental tree some 30ft away it never went up into the trees - I took a batch of pictures in both light and shade but noticed when I zoomed in on the bird in the camera display that the supercilium showed some buff in front of the eye and white behind .. odd I thought  - then looking closely at the ear coverts I though I could make out the pale and dark spots that would turn it into a Olive-backed. But the mantle was I thought too well streaked for that but the covert centers were odd and looking however at the fringes on everything they where too whitish -- thus I need confirmation on the bird -- is this a plain and simple Tree Pipit or something else more exotic.</blockquote>