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Message: <blockquote data-quote="njlarsen" data-source="post: 1585759" data-attributes="member: 7427">What I would have done the same day as the Richards pipit observation would be to listen to published calls of the same species. If I by those calls could Id definite, then it would go on my list, otherwise not. Of course, I am one of those weird people <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /> who also tick what I hear if I can id the species reliably by sound. The red-throated pipit on my list is an almost identical story, except that I had listened up on the call a couple of days before, so when someone shouted out the name, I heard and recognized the next call it made as it flew over. I even got my bins on the bird; it was a pipit  :-ONiels</blockquote>