I noticed that in the shot as well, but since it is absent in the other
shot of the dark morph taken at the same time, it is likely a photo
artifact like dust on the lens.
Cheers,
Mark
Mark Mornoe
Louisville, KY
On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 9:25 PM james.a.wheat@xxxxxxxxx <
james.a.wheat@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Nice shots, BPB. It appears the dark morph has something streaming along
behind it. I hope it can free itself of this “string” or whatever it is.
James Wheat
Taylorsville KY
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On Feb 22, 2021, at 8:46 PM, brainard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:Hawks this winter. Win decided he only saw a dark morph after reviewing his
Day before yesterday, Win Ahrens finally found us some Rough-legged
photos but I suspect he did see both a dark morph and a light morph that I
saw today.
hayfields, alfalfa, and corn stubble along US 421 north of Bedford and side
The birds are foraging in open, upland ag fields, mostly mowed
roads off of it. Not sure how lucky I was to come across both individuals,
but I was in the area for about three hours and only had one or the other
in view for about 30 minutes total.
https://ebird.org/checklist/S82165607
Despite the gray day, I got some passable ID shots on my eBird list:
stubble field on the south side of KY 1226 about a mile east of US 421. The
Also of interest was a large flock of field birds in a large corn
flock may have contained 500 birds, of which 100-200 were Lapland Longspurs.
poking around in the hinterlands . . .
Really, really nice to see Rough-leggeds again . . . thanks to Win for
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