Steve & all- About 3 times over the weekend in Dakota County I encountered the same type of flock. Once was at the new Vermillion River WMA west of Hwy 52 on Sunday. My husband and I were able to get enough field marks to identify some of the 200 or so birds as Lapland Longspurs. We also saw a few small flocks of migrating snow geese among the many flocks of Canada geese. The other large flock encounters were along County Road 85/Goodwin Ave & 150th street west of Hastings (near the GIANT American flag) on Saturday and again on Sunday. I can only estimate that the Saturday flock included about 400 birds! In those flocks I identified at least a few Snow Buntings among the group but I think the rest were longspurs. The horned larks I saw over the weekend seemed to be in singles or small pairs. Amazingly each time I did not have binoculars handy ...young kids will do that to you I guess! :) Jen
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