ML617928188
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I saw a flock of birds in the dark cloudy morning in the pasture behind the Chambers Farm. As is true of many sightings, something about this flying flock of birds was different. Couldn’t pick them out on the ground. The flock was quite loose, unlike tight RWB and Starling flocks. The birds were smaller than Robins. Bluebirds don’t flock in this manner or land on the ground as a single flock. (Horned Lark did not even come into my thoughts although in retrospect the wing-flap and flight pattern, as well as size, did not match.) I thought immediately: pipits! The lack of good light did not reveal a face pattern or white-edged tail in flight. I walked 200 yards (the opposite way I had been headed) with Merlin on, towards where the flock landed. As I got close, Merlin flashed up ‘American Pipit’ in yellow to CONFIRM my sighting. I am 100% sure—and would have recorded American Pipit without Merlin. This is at least my second sighting ever of American Pipits off the Alfrecha Road. cjf
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