As soon, however, as we began the steep climb above the matted copses, the white-crowns disappeared and the pipits grew more abundant.
A little before the ascent of the ridge begins, the first pipits are seen; thence the clamberer has pipit company to the point where the ridge joins the main bulk of the mountain.
Afterwards a number of other pipits performed the same aerial exploit.
Here the pipits stop, and the first leucostictes are noted, which, chirping cheerily all the way, escort the traveller to the summit.
Did thepipits accompany you to the summit of the peak?
From this sublime height the American pipits rise on resilient wings hundreds of feet into the air until they disappear in the cerulean depths of the sky, singing all the while at "heaven's gate.
Pipits are earth-coloured birds with dark stripes along the vein of each feather.
This is very like the above two pipits in appearance, but there is a good deal more white in the tail.
Distinguished from the pipits in having no white in the tail.
The wagtails are distinguished from the pipits by their brighter colouring and longer tails.
They all place their nests on the ground; and they all walk, instead of hopping; the Larks and the Pipits sing in the air, while the Pipits and the Wagtails move their tails up and down in a peculiar manner.
The result of this movement was that we found the Pipits—all Alpine-pipits (see p.
Are we to suppose that the Pipits and their friends pass it in spring in spite of the snow, and travel in the same gradual manner?
By the end of the month much song has ceased, Tree Pipits and Chaffinches especially becoming mute.
Meadow Pipits always give us the impression of being somewhat sad little birds, taking life very seriously, as even human dwellers on these moorland solitudes are apt to do.
It breeds as commonly on the rocky shores of Devon as on the Hebrides and the Farne Islands; but there are no Rock Pipits on the flat coast-line between the Thames and the Humber.
Almost to a bird these Pipits leave the South Yorkshire moors during September and October.
Song Thrushes in great numbers frequent the turnip-fields, as also do Meadow Pipits and Hedge Accentors; by the end of the month Missel-thrushes are in flocks upon the fields, as also are Starlings and Sparrows.
Only the wheat-ears bobbed their white rumps in front of them and the meadow-pipits flew before them in their endless game of waiting and of flight, so tame that Morgan ran to catch one with his hands.
The Tree Pipits have all departed by the middle of October, and I have never seen any there in November.
There is no specimen of this or either of the other Pipits in the Museum.
Lark and pipit seem near relations; only the skylark sings rising, descending, anywhere, but the pipits chiefly while slowly descending.
Meadow-pipits are not migrants in the sense that the swallows are; but they move about and so change their localities that when they come back they have much of the interest of a spring-bird.
During the migrations the pipits are abundant in salt marshes or open stretches of country inland, that, with lark-like preference, they choose for feeding grounds.
You hear notes of larks and pipits as they flit here and there among the heather.
Among the boulders pipitsflit at times with feeble cries.
In the open, there are owls and hawks; and the only refuge from either is the thick-leafed grove, into which linnets and pipits can dive at the approach of danger and quickly hide.
The bailiwicks of the pipits and the rosy finches slightly overlapped, as did also those of the pipits and the white-crowned sparrows near the great mountain's base.
However, no pipits ventured to the upper story of this elevated region--at least, not at the time of our visit, although they may have ascended to the summit later in the season.
One of the Pipits procured at Conchitas belongs to this species, if distinct from the former.
Of the almost cosmopolitan Pipits about eight or nine species are sparingly distributed over the prairies and pampas of the New World.
The Wagtails and Pipitsare closely-allied forms, and are usually referred to the same family of Oscines.
But whereas pipits are inconspicuous, the red-backs at once attracted attention by the contrast between their bold coloring and the grayish or yellowish tones of the ground along which they ran.
They behaved like pipits or longspurs, running actively over the ground in the same manner and showing the same restlessness and the same kind of flight.
Pipits are dull brown birds, streaked like larks, that display tail-wagging propensities.
Lastly, mention must be made of various species of pipits and warblers, who feed on insects down in the depths of the millet field.
When running to discover the cause of this I startled half a dozen pipits (Anthus rufulus) that, hidden by the grass, were feeding on the ground.
Pipits are boreal breeders; but inasmuch as our own superb Alps claim kinship with the Arctic, there is no more favorable spot to study the nesting of the Pipits than upon the Cascades of northern Washington.
In social flight the Pipitsstraggle out far apart, so as to allow plenty of room for their chronic St. Vitus's dance to jerk them hither or thither or up or down, without clashing with their fellows.
With the advance of summer, the Pipits lead their broods about the disrobed peaks, even to the very summits, as do the noble Leucostictes.
A month later the beautiful rock-thrush had come to grace the desolation with lilting flight and song, and tawny pipits ran blithely among the rocks.
It is the new way to class the pipits with the latter birds, instead of with the former, which, now, they “only superficially resemble.
The two pipits most often seen on the Nilgiris in summer are the Nilgiri pipit (Anthus nilgirensis) and the Indian pipit (A.
Yellow charlock shot up faster and shone bright above the corn; the oaks showered down their green flowers like moss upon the ground; the tree-pipits sang on the branches and descending to the wheat.
Pipits to the Wagtails, but incline more to the latter.
At Lake Peters there was a definite increase in numbers and in movement of water pipits with the approach of winter.
On August 13, on a trip along the west shore line from the south end to the north end of the lake, the only birds seen were water pipits and these were in great numbers.
On the morning of August 15, there was a dramatic increase in the number of pipits along the edge of the lake.
On August 10, the water pipits were the most common bird at the edge of the lake, five or six usually being seen in a half hour trip.
There is a case on record in which a pair of Meadow Pipits were seen to throw out their own young ones to make room for the intruder.
Pipits are more allied to the Wagtail family than with Larks.
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