[TN-Bird] 20+ Lapland Longspurs (Robertson County)

From: Tony Lance <tonylance@xxxxxxx>
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 17:22:33 -0600
Ken Oeser joined me for a bit of birding today, looking mainly for Lapland 
Longspurs. After first checking to see if the Black-necked Stilt was still 
there (it was), we made our way to Turns Rd. where we found Horned Larks and 
longspurs close to and on the road. We were able to count five longspurs at one 
time, and there were probably several more. From there we headed over to Ogg 
Rd. just off Hwy 41 and did even better. The field there was practically 
crawling with larks, many of them fairly close to the road. There were 
certainly 200 and possibly many more than that. Right away we heard a good 
number of longspurs rattling. Using his scope Ken counted 23 in the relatively 
small area where we were looking. We both felt there were easily twice that 
many in the entire field.

A while later Ed Schneider came up to see the longspurs. By the time he arrived 
most of the birds had moved farther away from the road. Nonetheless, some of 
them eventually made their way into view and we got pretty good looks.

Tony Lance
Springfield, TN


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