My regular trip to the lake was hijacked (but in a good way) when, not long after I arrived, I heard a strange buzzing type call coming from a wet grassy area on the eastern side of the lake. Initially I thought it might be another Red-throated Pipit (I found one at the lake in 1915??) but when I flushed the bird the brief views I got were of a large plain pipit! I racked my brains to remember the calls of the larger pipits, Tawny, Richard's etc but nothing seemed to match. I tried getting views of the bird on the ground but it was very flighty and kept flying into the centre of a large area of typha. The best thing to do seemed to be to record the calls and go from that. After some trial and error (my phone was an early Christmas present) I worked out how to record sound and I set it all up. I pushed into the typha and within seconds the bird flew back over my head calling.
Post Sound recording here
After a few more unsuccessful attempts to view the bird, I decided to return to the car and listen to call the recording and compare to some from the internet. It didn't take me too long to realise that the call was that of a wagtail.
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