Above and below,
Tree Pipits, Playa Blanca, Lanzarote, March 2012
DSLR and 400mm telephoto lens
This
species is an infrequent but annual migrant in Øygarden
where I have occasionally also heard it singing in potential breeding habitat. It
is a regular breeder and passage migrant on Gullfjell.
Migrant Tree Pipit at Herdlevær,
Øygarden, September 2014
Exhausted Tree Pipit on the deck of an offshore vessel near Snorre C,
Norwegian Sector, April 2014
In
the late autumn the call of Tree Pipit can get the heart pumping as it
sounds very similar to the rarer Olive-backed Pipit. So any birds seen
in October are paid some extra attention. This bird flew up calling and
disappeared - however, after much effort I tracked it down and found it
to be just another late autumn Tree Pipit - an exciting hour or so none
the less:)
Above and below: Late autumn Tree Pipit, Herdlevær, Øygarden, October 2019
