Species under threat * Birds whose decline is unexplained: Common scoter, cuckoo, hawfinch, kestrel, lesser redpoll, slavonian grebe, swift, tree pipit, whinchat and wood warbler.
Of course - it must be a water pipit.
It is the Sprague's pipit, not Sprague's tippet.
It was a meadow pipit, common enough on these moors.
3. Dustin Horowitz maintains a strict minimalist rigor when working on his Pipit label.
More than 20 years ago, I saw a water pipit on top of a mountain in Spain's Picos de Europa.
These include the linnet, Dartford warbler, stonechat, meadow pipit, skylark, goldfinch, bullfinch, hedge sparrow, grey partridge and yellowhammer.
Some, like the very rare South Georgia pipit, will probably spread to the main island from offshore refuges quickly.
Something about its appearance puzzled me: too long-tailed for meadow pipit, but not elegant enough for a wagtail.
The water pipit is the only species of bird that travels north to spend the winter in Britain.
Typical land and freshwater birds of the Arctic Zone are the redpoll, Lapland longspur, snowbird, wheatear, pipit, certain plovers and sandpipers, loons, rock ptarmigans, ducks, and geese.
