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Had 3 encounters with Smith's Longspurs yesterday (14th) at Red Rocks Prairie in Cottonwood Co. On the north facing slope, about 300 m east of the wooden sign, 6 birds flushed from the mowed grass and flew by me within 10m at near eye-level. They called several times - a sharp, dry staccato rattle- and I could easily see their distinctive ochre/buffy uniform underparts and white outer tail feathers. Then a single flushed 10m away and also called. Along the east fence I had a group of 12 birds calling 5-10 m over head in excellent light. They circled me for about 30 seconds affording good views of underparts and tail patterns. They then flew south and were joined by about 30-40 unidentified longspurs. Also flushed a Sedge Wren and a LeConte's Sparrow. Finally, I glassed a small wet area on north side of Brown Co. CR 6, 2.8 miles west of Lake Hanska boat access. There were 160 American Golden-plovers, 1 Stilt Sp, 1 Semipalmated Sp., and several pipits and snipe. James Mattsson [email protected] Why Wait? Move to EarthLink. ------=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8 Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <HTML style="FONT-SIZE: x-small; FONT-FAMILY: MS Sans Serif"><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1251"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1458" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <P> <DIV>Had 3 encounters with Smith's Longspurs yesterday (14th) at Red Rocks Prairie in Cottonwood Co. On the north facing slope, about 300 m east of the wooden sign, 6 birds flushed from the mowed grass and flew by me within 10m at near eye-level. They called several times - a sharp, dry staccato rattle- and I could easily see their distinctive ochre/buffy uniform underparts and white outer tail feathers. Then a single flushed 10m away and also called. Along the east fence I had a group of 12 birds calling 5-10 m over head in excellent light. They circled me for about 30 seconds affording good views of underparts and tail patterns. They then flew south and were joined by about 30-40 unidentified longspurs. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Also flushed a Sedge Wren and a LeConte's Sparrow.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Finally, I glassed a small wet area on north side of Brown Co. CR 6, 2.8 miles west of Lake Hanska boat access. There were 160 American Golden-plovers, 1 Stilt Sp, 1 Semipalmated Sp., and several pipits and snipe. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>James Mattsson</DIV> <DIV><A href="mailto:[email protected]";>[email protected]</A></DIV> <DIV>Why Wait? Move to EarthLink.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <P></P></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_84815C5ABAF209EF376268C8--
