A Blyth's Pipit was perhaps a somewhat duller side attraction, but a flock of sociable lapwings was most certainly not.
A small pool alongside the road had three Plain-backed pipits strutting around, their jizz reminding me of Tawny Pipit.
A Tree Pipit sang off to one side and a few choughs passed over at height.
Also seen were 4 woodcock, 34 meadow pipit, a redpoll and a skylark in song.
Among the smaller birds may be enumerated finches, the siskin, bullfinch, pipit, titmouse, wagtail, lark, fine-crested wren, hedge-sparrow, corn-wren, nut-hatch, starling, swallow, martin, swift, thrush, butcher bird, shrike, dipper, yellow-hammer, ortolan and a warbler (Accentor alpinus).
Around the shore we found Tawny Pipit and Rufous-tailed Lark as well as a quite confiding Southern Gray Shrike.
Few other species involved in the movement - just 1 Tree Pipit - but a flock of c100 linnets in the rape field.
I agreed it looked like a pipit but could n't decide what kind because it had a streaky back.
In addition to skylarks, other birds feeding on the roof have included linnet, meadow pipit and pied wagtail.
On the highest pastures we find, further, the alpine accentor (Accentor collaris) and the alpine pipit (Anthus spipoletta).
Other prairie birds are the prairie chicken, and there are a great many birds that sing while flying; among them are the horned lark, bobolink, Smith's longspur and chestnut collared longspur, lark-sparrow, lark-bunting and Sprague's pipit.
Pipits ran out with red throated and meadow but no water pipits ran out with red throated and meadow but no water pipit here.
The large baobabs that line the road to Camalou were good for Palearctic migrants, including woodchat shrike, tree pipit and subalpine warbler.
The reserve is also home to a number of bird species including meadow pipit, snipe and skylark.
They are found on heath, salt marsh and open scrub, where they can find goldfinch, linnet or meadow pipit.