Hi all, Reid and I drove around the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge this morning looking for longspurs . The area just south of the visitor's center has recently been burned, but the land just north of the visitor's center and all the way up to the edge of the road which runs through the buffalo enclosure was burned last fall and it was on this road we ran into a large flock of longspurs (approximately 200-300) which consisted mostly of Lapland Longspurs with some Smith's Longspurs mixed in. A couple of times some of them settled on the side of the road so you could study the two species very well. The best place we found for viewing was looking south towards the visitor's center from the road through the buffalo enclosure. Pam Allen West Des Moines, IA --- This mailing list is sponsored by the Iowa Ornithologists' Union. Membership available on-line at http://www.iowabirds.org/iou/PayDues.aspx.
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