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Have you ever walked through a meadow, and seen a small brown bird erupt out of the grass in front of you and fly off? Yes? Well that happened to me a lot yesterday.

I was out at Orfordness - a shingly slice of Suffolk's varied coastline. A former cold war nuclear testing site, it's long since been abandoned to nature. In amongst the rusting metal, sprawling brambles and shifting sands, meadow pipits make their home.

I wasn't looking for meadow pipits per se, but there were certainly plenty of these little guys about. So, here's a picture of one in flight. As, let's face it, they're normally up and away before you get a chance to see them!

Meadow pipit in flight. Photo by Richard Revels (www.rspb-images.com)

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