Hello everyone, I have to apologize for the very late nature of this posting, but on Wednesday late afternoon, while touring a couple guests from the British Trust for Ornithology around, we encountered a flock that I estimated to be at least 100 LAPLAND LONGSPURs at Carncross Road near the bridge to Howland Island. There have been a few eBird reports from last weekend, but of much smaller groups. The birds were in the corn stubble field to the south of the road, well away from the road (100 - 150m). Part of the reason that I did not post this earlier was that I thought I was delusional in my ID for the flock of birds that I only saw distantly and briefly through binoculars as they flew, and only yesterday evening I found out that others had also seen the species...much later than would be expected. Anyway, if anyone is up in that area, don't be surprised if you see the longspurs still around. Wet areas in the stubble also held various other birds, including LEAST SANDPIPER, PECTORAL SANDPIPER, LESSER YELLOWLEGs, GREATER YELLOWLEGs, and a BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER.
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