After finishing an IBA survey at Lower Spring Lake Park with Jen Vieth, I joined Laura Coble and Diana Doyle in searching for a Loggerhead Shrike that Jen had seen earlier. We found it at the location she had described: south of highway 55, along Co. 85, on telephone wires lining a driveway near the sign for a welding business. The bird made several passes at prey on the ground, returning to the wire, then to a couple of small trees, and finally back to the wire. It did some preening in between feedings. (Thanks, Jen!)
Along the same road, but further north, was a meadowlark on the wire. It did not sing an entire song, but repeated its short contact call.After listening to audio for both E. and W. meadowlark, we concluded it was a Western. Has anyone else seen a W. Meadowlark in this vicinity recently? Linda Whyte
