ML618711932

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Observation details

50m into the ridge, I see a couple. The guy is chatting with me, I asked him if he's seen any good birds. He said no, and was looking for Monals. Meanwhile his wife is clicking pictures of me talking to this guy🙈🙈 very awkward for me. Anyway, I am scanning with my bins, and this photographer obviously doesn't have bins. He is looking through his camera and then tells me he can see a lark. I immediately knew what it must be, so I go towards him. I couldn't see the bird because it was behind a bund/ledge like thing, and I am short. So I am trying to get closer and this photographer cuts my way and tells me to back off, because the bird would fly away. I give him an extremely disgusting look, stepped aside and then saw the Upland Pipit and it flew!! I cursed him and just walked away. Anyway, later on the trail, I saw another one later which was singing. However, this one had an extra note, a single note aeerrr at the end of each song vocalisation. This was new to me and wasn't recorded before (at least the recordings I had heard previously, yet to check P&W). The bird went away quickly, but I was keen on recording this song with the extra note. I used playback and the bird came back singing, but didn't reproduce the extra note it had earlier. The song of this one is so different than the rest of the pipits. Legit felt like the song of Indian Blue Robin (without its chatter in the end) that I'm used to hearing in southern India. Perhaps, the song has been influenced too much from the geographically closer redstarts, niltavas?

Technical information

Model

Pixel 8

Lens

Pixel 8 back camera 6.9mm f/1.68

ISO

45

Focal length

6.9 mm

Flash

Flash did not fire

f-stop

f/1.7

Shutter speed

259/250000 sec

Dimensions

1676 pixels x 2981 pixels

Original file size

707.78 KB