One of the best Red-throated Pipits I've seen in the UK was the stunningly bright bird that favoured Buness on Fair Isle on 17th October 2014. For a bird late in the autumn to be this bright was unusual and challenged spring birds in plumage quality. Not only that it was extremely confiding and was often to close to photograph, at one point it wandered through the legs of my tripod.
The long awaited Pechora Pipit tick came only as recently as 2016 when a long staying bird was found on Super Sunday, the 2nd October. This was the top of a very impressive pile of rarities on Fair Isle that day. It went on to linger on the island until around the 17th of the month and often showed very well in the garden of Lower Stoneybrek. After it had initially been found at Shirva it relocated to the west cliffs at Kroga for a few days before it made to the islands gardens.
Red-throated Pipit, Buness, 17th October 2014
Pechora Pipit, Lower Stoneybrek, Fair Isle October 2016
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