I checked out the recently plowed and burned wildlife food plots in the
Brooklyn Wildlife Area from 5:15-6:45pm this evening. The weather wasn't ideal
(windy and rainy for half of it) so that may have influenced my results. I did
find a cooperative flock of about 50 Lapland Longspurs. I watched them fly
short distances and feed on the ground for a while, and at no point did I see a
Smith's in that flock. After about 15 minutes the group flew up and out of the
field. When I walked back about 20 minutes later I flushed a flock of 10
longspurs (which may or may not have been part of the original flock I saw
earlier), but they immediately took off. Because they were back-lit and flying
away from me, there was no way to tell if a Smith's was mixed in with them. The
vocalizations sounded like those of Lapland.
It's possible that the Smith's are still out there. At least the Laplands for
sure are. Good birding!
Alyssa DeRubeis
Madison, Dane Co.
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