Goxhill was my local patch for 13 years of my early birding so was keen to try and catch up with Steve Routledge's OBP found on Sunday - having had a rather unsatisfactory flight view on Sunday afternoon I didn't actually expect it to still be there this morning but after a few hours search located it about 500m from where it was on Sunday - elusive was not the word; flushing at a distance from the grass it invariably flew to a hawthorn hedge the other side of a borrow pit, long walk round, then climbed down into the thorns and totally disappeared - otherwise it landed in clumps of reed and again evaporated from view - very wet boots, very tired legs and poor shots in rubbish light at a distance but the calls were good to reacquaint myself with - the load explosive bzzzzzzz was only heard odd times on take off while it mostly uttered the much quieter pseee call of variable length and volume but generally rather quiet and easily overlooked
This bird recalls a very late Tree? Pipit that I heard as it flew off from Humberstone Fitties on November 9th 1980 and which I subsequently suspected was a also an Olive-backed Pipit
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