Date: 1/12/25 4:36 am From: Sandy Berger <sndbrgr...> Subject: American Pipits
My husband and I drove down to the riverfront historic sites on Friday
morning to shoot snow photos. We had received around 10 inches of snow
Thursday night. Near the new Marshals Museum on Riverside Drive there were
some tire tracks and those tracks were full of American Pipits. We’d inch
along and they would fly up and then set back down. Over and over again.
There was no place else for them to go. No open spaces anywhere. I tried to
do a quick count. We had a police officer behind us but we stopped and I
jumped out for a photo. I waved a thank you. He gave me a little smile.
There were at least 40 pipits. You could see their tails wagging up and
down. Are pipits related to wagtails? Killdeer were also hanging out in the
road.
We finished shooting snow photos at the museum and headed to the national
historic site and saw more pipits near the national cemetery on Wheeler
Ave. It was so odd seeing them in town. Deep snow must be hard on the
prairie types.
