Pipit (RT) Pyrenees 28/08 (1 Viewer)

[rosbifs]

In our Lesser Kestrel Field two Pipits took off - the call was as much a Red Throated as I could imagine - not that familiar with but defo not a meadow pipit call!!!! In the same area were Ortolans, Yellow Wag, Whinchat...

The two birds flew up where one landed and the other floated around - obviously, as I couldn't get one, taking a flight shot was impossible.

Is there anything in this structure to seal the id? Maybe the angle but looked very stubby, in the sense that the tail seemed short. The photos are rubbish and I hope Dragnil got a better shot but they do seem to suggest a very white super, although could just be the lighting...

 

[THE_FERN]

I can't make anything of these, but perhaps if you play with the contrast etc...

 

[rosbifs]

I lightened them just wondering whether there were structural hints

no hind claw

Dragnil need to post his photo... slightly better angle, camera, lens, ability etc

 

[Butty]

...seem to suggest a very white super, although could just be the lighting

You can see also that the 'supercilium' extends through the base of the upper mandible and all along the whole upper edge of the back/upperparts. It's a sharpening/contrast artefact.

 

[lou salomon]

Tree Pipits. Red-throated doesn't have such fine flank streaking. And bill also fits.