Pipit Meadow 175 Allenheads 2007
Pipits are very much a birding zealots' genus. All the members of the family are small, brown, streaky, relatively similar birds - the quintessential little brown job. And they all show a lonbg hind-claw, typical of ground dwelling passerines.
Meadow Pipits can sometime be hard to get close to but when the young have recently fledged they gather in large groups that gather along roadside walls and fences on the moors of northern England. A slow approach in a car with the light coming from the passenger side allows you to get good shots.
Sometimes however a back-lighted effect as in this photo works as well. Although there are thousands of these birds on the moors near Allenheads [England’s highest village] now, these will all have moved towards coastal and low lying farm areas by the start of autumn.
Pipit Meadow 175 Allenheads 2007
Pipits are very much a birding zealots' genus. All the members of the family are small, brown, streaky, relatively similar birds - the quintessential little brown job. And they all show a lonbg hind-claw, typical of ground dwelling passerines.
Meadow Pipits can sometime be hard to get close to but when the young have recently fledged they gather in large groups that gather along roadside walls and fences on the moors of northern England. A slow approach in a car with the light coming from the passenger side allows you to get good shots.
Sometimes however a back-lighted effect as in this photo works as well. Although there are thousands of these birds on the moors near Allenheads [England’s highest village] now, these will all have moved towards coastal and low lying farm areas by the start of autumn.