Water Pipit

🔍 Overview

A scarce winter visitor and passage migrant, usually found on wet meadows and saline lagoons.

🪶 Key Identification Features

Greyish upperparts, clean pale underparts

Pale supercilium and slender bill

More refined than Rock Pipit

🗺️ Habitat & Distribution

Regular at Pulborough Brooks, Amberley Wild Brooks, and Cuckmere Haven from October–April.

🎶 Voice & Behaviour

Soft, high-pitched “tseep”. Skulking and hard to spot unless flushed; often seen feeding in flooded pastures.