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While crossing Holt Oval yesterday morning I saw the usual loiterers:
Galahs, Magpies & Crested Pigeons before I noticed a small bird 30m
away that I tentatively ID'd as an Australasian Pipit. Immediately, it scurried
a couple of metres and stopped without bobbing its hindquarters, a decidedly
un-pipit like characteristic that had me revising my initial identification to
that of Eurasian Skylark. I fetched minuscle 8x20 binos from my jacket and got a
reasonably well-focussed view, bird was now about 25m from me. Then, while
trying to remain objective, I believe I could discern a little crest. Surely it
was the continental model sans the soggy rear suspension rather than Bobbin Butt
the Pipit.
John Layton
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