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I was walking through the field the White Wagtail had been seen in at about 1215 when a bird flew over me. I was and still am unsure whether I flushed it up or if it just flew over me by chance. It called twice, each time basically right over me and loud so I heard it well. the first time I had absolutely no clue what I had heard, the second time it called it suddenly clicked—oh! Red-throated Pipit! I walked in the direction that I thought the bird had flown in, and after a while I flushed it up again with a flock of pipits. This time I saw it in flight, clearly a pipit, and tracked to where it landed. It called this time in flight maybe 5-6 times, but these calls were very weak, and some doubled, which I thought boded very poorly for this being a Red-throat. Luckily I walked over to it, got what I assumed was the bird in bins, but it was too far to tell anything, so in the process of getting closer I flushed it again, and it called twice more, this time again the characteristic call I originally heard— “PSEEET! PSEEET!” After a while of flogging around, I flushed it again, heard it again, and finally it landed where I could get some satisfactory views and poor digibinned photos. It flushed again, and then I walked over to where it landed and nothing. After looking for another 30min, I ran back to the car to retrieve camera and scope. I returned and after 15-20 minutes I flushed it again, and at this point told Teale (who I was in communication with) that I felt good enough about this record that if he wouldn’t mind posting about it for me that would be great. Over the next two hours I flushed it maybe 3 more times, and had great scope views of it on the ground once. This was a very boldly streaked pipit, with coarse, black streaking below in the breast, flanks, and malar, a prominent superc, and a characteristic dark striped back highlighted by two white braces. The head was turning reddish and had a nice maroonish hue. In flight the bird called a loud, distinctive, single note, incredibly aspirated and emphatically descending PSEET! Which made the bird incredibly easy to separate from any other bird in the area. I heard this call probably 30 times today while flushing this bird. Sometimes this bird was with American Pipits, but it was often isolated off on the edge of the flock or even alone in the taller grass and reeds where it was often close to impossible to scope. It would only land in the shorter stuff after being flushed, and never seemed to stay there long, always magically reappearing in a wet, dense patch.

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