Anthus pratensis

High in the foothills of the Eastern Sierra west of Bishop is a beautiful meadow filled with blue flag iris, with snow-capped White Mountain in the background. It's a rough ride along Buttermilk Road (don't take your passenger car here), but the views are spectacular and you could even do some bouldering along the way!

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Mating pair amongst the meadow flowers near Kilvington Lakes in East Nottinghamshire (UK) (5510)

Taken New Forest National Park, Hampshire

I visited this field in Sherfield-on-Loddon today at the side of the River. Last year it was full of Ragged Robin and buttercups. This year - just buttercups and some clover. I suppose the Ragged Robin must be biennial. A pity but still lovely meadow. I am hoping they will not build on it.

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Alta Badia, Dolomites, Italy

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The meadow pipit is a common nesting bird of moorland, heathland and rough grassland. In the autumn and winter, it moves out of upland areas to lowlands where it gathers in small flocks and can be found on farmland and saltmarshes. In the spring, it performs a fluttering, 'parachute' display flight. There are 2 million breeding territories in the UK.

On moorlands, meadow pipits are the most common 'foster parents' of young cuckoos. The adult cuckoo will lay a single egg in a meadow pipit's nest. After hatching, the cuckoo chick will push the other eggs or young birds out of the nest, giving its foster parents more time to concentrate on feeding their new, oversized chick.

Smile on Saturday ~~~~~~Meadows and Fields

hoffnungsvoll & sonnig

Wiesen.Impression

Taken on Exmoor!

Meadow Brown Butterfly in my garden

Anthus pratensis

Snettisham Coastal Park

WORMER – Soms is het weiland in het midden lager dan aan de slootkant omdat veen inklinkt. Met een weidemolen – een soort pomp – kun je ervoor zorgen dat het gras in het midden van het weiland niet onder water kom te staan.

WORMER – Sometimes the meadow in the middle is lower than on the ditch side because peat collapses. With a meadow mill – a kind of pump – you can ensure that the grass in the middle of the meadow does not get flooded.

Meadow Pipit seen in the Newlands Valley Cumbria. (2237)

The dorsal view.

Bunchberry Meadows. Leduc County, Alberta.

North Norfolk.

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This lovely bird was near Easthaven this afternoon.

Natural Water Slides at Ohiopyle State Park

Anthus pratensis

Handheld on 1/25 sec - with a pola filter on - is quite silly, but I had been shooting sunset and was walking back to my car when I saw this bird. There wasn't time for another set-up.

When its snowy and cold outside I like to look at some warm weather photos, the late summer flowers were still showing on this fun day

Contemplating the long journey ahead.

Meadow Pipit - Cleethorpes.

Meadow framed with trees along Rist Canyon Road, Bellvue, Colorado.

Na łące wśród polnej koniczyny i światła. /

On a meadow among the rabbitfood clover (Trifolium arvense) and light.