Meadow Pipits

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 my exhaust …

The hind claws of Meadow Pipits really are something special. Just look at them: The long hind claw is probably an adaptation …

I’m walking along the beach at Mae Sands on a beautiful morning. I’m heading out to see one of the Arctic Tern …

Many birds have short and difficult lives. Every day is a struggle to find food and shelter, find a mate, raise a …

There’s a never-ending battle going on in the meadows and on moorland of Dartmoor. It’s Cuckoo versus Meadow Pipit. The Meadow Pipits …

I decide to get up at dawn and go to Dartmoor. I’ve decided that before and stayed in bed. This time I …

In July I went walking with my son on Dartmoor and he took a rare portrait of me Walking the Hunters’ Path: …

There’s been an eruption of Garden Chafers, Phyllopertha horticola, at Emsworthy Mire. The bracken is covered in them. The local Meadow Pipits …

Meadow Pipits are very common birds of farmland. It’s the most common songbird in upland Britain. They thrive in Orkney. They fly …

I’m paying a quick visit to Aust near Bristol. It’s on the River Severn with a clear view of the two Severn …

We’ve killed over one in three Meadow Pipits in the UK in the last 45 years.

Here’s another of my favourite poems by Orcadian poet Edwin Muir. The Bird Adventurous bird walking upon the air,Like a schoolboy running …

My adventures on the fourth of five days walking the entire coast of Westray.

I’d love to be able to identify the different species of Pipit on Westray. The problem is that I can’t get near …