Pipit in the meadow
Meadow Pipits are the most common songbird in upland areas. We’re on Dartmoor and it’s true. They are everywhere here, with their distinctive white outer tail feathers visible when they fly.
It’s shocking that the numbers of Meadow Pipits in the UK have been declining since the mid-1970s, meaning they are now on the Amber List of conservation concern.
We need to care about our land use and change it to reverse their decline.
More Meadow Pipits
Pipit, pipit Meadow Pipits have a rather serious, stoic look. There are hundreds of families of Meadow Pipits on Westray, and, as… read more
Singing in the bath I'm driving along the car-bottom-scraping track to Noup Head. It's first gear all the way unless I want to have… read more
Claws The hind claws of Meadow Pipits really are something special. Just look at them: The long hind claw is probably… read more
Juvenile Cuckoo with Meadow Pipit attendants I'm walking along the beach at Mae Sands on a beautiful morning. I'm heading out to see one of the… read more
Stayin’ Alive Many birds have short and difficult lives. Every day is a struggle to find food and shelter, find a mate,… read more
Cuckoo and Meadow Pipit There's a never-ending battle going on in the meadows and on moorland of Dartmoor. It's Cuckoo versus Meadow Pipit. The… read more
Cuckoos and Meadow Pipits – an ancient battle I decide to get up at dawn and go to Dartmoor. I've decided that before and stayed in bed. This… read more
2020 highlights of a wilder Devon life – part 2 In July I went walking with my son on Dartmoor and he took a rare portrait of me Walking the… read more
Meadow Pipits at Emsworthy Mire There's been an eruption of Garden Chafers, Phyllopertha horticola, at Emsworthy Mire. The bracken is covered in them. The local… read more