[birdky] Longspurs, Red-shouldered Hawk

I set out across some neighboring corn-stubble/wheat fields today to see if I 
could find some Snow Buntings. No Snow Buntings for me, but I did see what I 
think is the same individual Red-shouldered Hawk for the sixth time since Jan. 
9. I believe it has established a winter territory here. Each time I've seen 
it, it has flown from one of my several little cedar thickets. Today it flew 
from one of the cedar thickets, landed on the ground beside a wet weather pond 
out in the middle of a grain field, then on to a cedar stump at the edge of the 
same grain field before I lost it. Red-shouldered Hawks may be commonplace 
sightings in other parts of the state, but for me it's a first time thing to be 
hosting a wintering Red-shouldered Hawk. 
   There were good numbers of Lapland Longspurs mixed in with the Horned Lark 
flocks today.
Frank Lyne frank@xxxxxxxxxxx near Dot in Logan County

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