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28-12-2010, 10:51 PM
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| | | what Pipit is this?
Chester city center, 2 days ago, Just not sure what Pipit this is..well out of its usual habitat...  |
28-12-2010, 11:05 PM
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| | | Re: what Pipit is this?
Meadow Pipit.
Note the thick streaking on the flanks, and the long hind claw.
It's not dark or heavily streaked enough for a Rock and, besides the above, the Tree Pipits are in Africa at rhe moment. |
29-12-2010, 08:09 AM
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| | | Re: what Pipit is this?
Agree with above, it's a Meadow Pipit 
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29-12-2010, 08:28 AM
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| | | Re: what Pipit is this?
In hard weather they often come into urban areas. Ive heard plenty of reports of meadow pipits in gardens and town centres this year. |
29-12-2010, 08:59 AM
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| | | Re: what Pipit is this?
What a lovely bird to get in your garden, I love it in the spring when the fill the hedgerows, they have the most beautiful song |
29-12-2010, 11:13 AM
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Originally Posted by violetbakes  What a lovely bird to get in your garden, I love it in the spring when the fill the hedgerows, they have the most beautiful song | Um, are you sure you're thinking of Meadow Pipits? They're a bird of open country - moors and unmown grassy fields. The song is a monotonous series of thin short whistles, not noted for its beauty (though i do like it!) |
29-12-2010, 01:47 PM
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Originally Posted by RKB Um, are you sure you're thinking of Meadow Pipits? They're a bird of open country - moors and unmown grassy fields. The song is a monotonous series of thin short whistles, not noted for its beauty (though i do like it!) |
Agree- I'd hardly describe Meadow Pipit as having a beautiful song, though I guess it's evocative of open places. |
29-12-2010, 02:13 PM
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| | | Re: what Pipit is this?
Dunnock, perhaps? Much prettier song sung from hedgerows and trees, rather than the "parachuting" song display of Meadow Pipits over more open ground.
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29-12-2010, 02:17 PM
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| | | Re: what Pipit is this?
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Originally Posted by aeshna5 Agree- I'd hardly describe Meadow Pipit as having a beautiful song, though I guess it's evocative of open places. | Evocative sums it up for me. I can shut my eyes, hear it and thing longingly of the moors in springtime. Oh yes, I love it!
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29-12-2010, 10:39 PM
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| | | Re: what Pipit is this?
thanks for that, Just strange seeing it on the pavement in a busy town centre in the snow...noted quite a few birds not seen before on the Dee in Chester, little grebe, Tufted duck, and even Goosander, | | |
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