{"id":35103,"date":"2016-01-25T05:55:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T12:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=35103"},"modified":"2025-07-21T10:39:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T15:39:56","slug":"an-american-pipit-on-a-tuft-of-grass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2016\/01\/25\/an-american-pipit-on-a-tuft-of-grass\/","title":{"rendered":"An American Pipit on a tuft of grass"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AmericanAn American Pipit on a tuft of grass – Nikon D810, f6.3, 1\/2000, ISO 320, Nikkor 500mm VR with 1.4x TC, natural light
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Of the species of pipits native to North America I have only seen and photographed American Pipits. It is possible that I could see Sprague’s Pipits in southwestern to northern Montana during the breeding season so I will have to keep an eye out for them up there where their range can overlap with American Pipits during the breeding season.<\/p>\n

Climate change may affect this species by allowing them to winter further north than they historically had been and I can say from my own observations that I see them now later into the winter than I had been just five years ago.<\/p>\n

This American Pipit on a tuft of grass was photographed last November at Farmington Bay WMA<\/span><\/a> and was only one of what appeared to be hundreds of pipits feeding on small insects or seeds in and next to a marshy area next to the parking area at the four-way.<\/p>\n

I haven’t seen any pipits for a while but because of cloudy weather I haven’t been out in the field much either plus they may have all migrated further south.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my American Pipit photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This American Pipit on a tuft of grass was photographed last November at Farmington Bay WMA and was only one of what appeared to be hundreds of pipits feeding on small insects. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":150558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4654,27,1022,697,26],"tags":[2400,4040,4136,3747,1799,4104,5475,4895,9123,4896,373],"class_list":["post-35103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-pipits","category-avian","category-davis-county-utah","category-farmington-bay-wma","category-utah","tag-american-pipit","tag-feeding","tag-foraging","tag-grass","tag-insects","tag-perched","tag-pipit","tag-pipits","tag-tuft","tag-water-pipit","tag-winter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/american-pipit-mia-mcpherson-1102.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-98b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":117509,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2023\/10\/26\/autumn-american-pipit-photos\/","url_meta":{"origin":35103,"position":0},"title":"Autumn American Pipit Photos","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"October 26, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Last Monday I took my first autumn American Pipit photos of 2023 while I was on the auto tour loop at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. 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