I would like to provide more information about the photos taken and hopefully this may help on the ID. Please note that I have named those photos as 1-6 in the previous message. For below, I will call the first photo as the original. Actually there were more than 7 photos but those 6 photos were distinct enough.
All 7 photos were taken on the same day from time 14:56:19 to 14:58:42, according to the exif data from the photos.
They were fallen in 5 main time periods:
14:56:19 - 14:56:25 (when photos 1 and 2 were taken at 14:56:19 and 14:56:22 resp)
14:57:05 (when photo 3 was taken)
14:57:24 - 14:57:27 (when photos 4 and 5 were taken at 14:57:24 and 14:57:27 resp)
14:58:00 - 14:58:01 (when the original was taken)
14:58:42 (when photo 6 was taken)
From what I observed on that day, there were at least 3 pipits and they did change their perching positions while flying back and forth between the ground and the wire. As such, there existed a chance that there might be 5 different birds among the photos.
However, from comparing the individuals, I have the following conclusions:
(1) Photos 1 to 3 should be the same individual. They looked like identical to me. The exif data also quite supported it.
(2) Photos 4 and 5 should be the same individual as well, from the appearance and the exif data.
(3) Photos 6, for me, should be a typical Richard's pipit - relatively long tail, long hindclaw, bill shape, etc.
(4) The original, to me, looked like the same individual as that in Photos 1 to 3.
So: If the above are all true, the possible Blyth's was perching on the wire from 14:56:19 to 14:57:05 and 14:58:00 to 14:58:01. However, please note that a pipit, the one in Photo 4 or 5, appeared as well at nearly exact location. Since the time between the two periods was just 55 seconds, it's quite likely that the pipit in Photo 4 or 5 was also the same individual, pointing out that all photos excluding Photo 6 should be the same individual.
But, as an observer on that day, I observed those few pipits, so close that I didn't see it through binoculars, and was able to trace their movements. There existed a possibility that the possible Blyth's left when we took its photos, flew away and perching position being occupied by another pipit. Then Blyth's came back again. I still remembered quite clearly they have had such kind of movements since they seemed to stay along with each other at that moment.
That's all for my information given to those interested. I stop here for all your comments. Thanks a lot and still feeling a bit unexpected to get a possible Blyth's pipit on a common birding day in LV!
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