A water pipit at Daisy Hill sewage works, Westhoughton today was a returning bird from last
winter which I didn't see so it was nice to catch up with it at last. It
showed pretty well, feeding on the filter beds with about 12 meadow pipits,
two grey wagtails and a couple of pied wagtails.
Sewage works are always interesting places to watch birds such as pipits. They
feed on the ground but constantly need to keep looking around because the
perforated pipes of the filter bed are always moving at a slow, steady pace towards them, pouring water onto the bed like a moving waterfall. If the pipits aren't
careful they could get a soaking so every few seconds they need to fly up and
over the pipe or sometimes land on it. When they do land on it occasionally
they stay on for a few laps having a preen or just looking around. It's quite
comical to watch really.
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