[va-bird] Barnacle Goose & Horned Larks

[Kirtland1999@xxxxxxx]

About 3 p.m. this afternoon (Monday) I and a birder visiting from Connecticut 
enjoyed watching the Barnacle Goose, with its customary flock of Canadian 
Geese, munching grass from the baseball field on the south side of Eisenhower 
Avenue near Cameron Run Regional Park in Alexandria, VA.  This was my second 
viewing of this bird; what a beauty it is!  My friend last saw Barnacle Geese 
in Greenland c. 1961.  I then drove to southern Frederick County, MD, seeking 
those Lapland Longspurs that Hans Holbrook saw earlier today near the 
intersection of  Buckeystown Road & MD Rte. 28.  On Buckeystown Road just 
north of Lilypons Road a flock of 40 or so small light-colored birds swirled 
across road over my car and were gone before I could stop to identify them -- 
there were other cars right behind me.  By the time I could make a U-turn and 
return, l I found a pair of Horned Larks foraging in the cornfield on the 
west side of Buckeystown Road but no Longspurs.  Since these species often 
forage together at this time of year, I suppose the flock were mostly 
Longspurs, but I'll have to visit another day to know for sure.  Thanks, 
Hans, all the same.  Good birding, all.
Stuart White
McLean, VA
kirtland1999@xxxxxxx


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