Had great views of good numbers of Lapland Longspurs at Waterman today. At least 15-20 birds—hard to count with the comings & goings but large groups would come in to some corn someone had put near the road by the cow barn as well as landing in various fields. Some individuals had great color. A few Horned Larks were mixed in. 

No one I spoke to had seen any Snow Buntings and I didn’t have any candidates but I was being wimpy and didn’t walk the roads to scope the fields, preferring to use my car as a blind and stay out of the wind. I did see a distant N Harrier male.

The Longspurs would drop down into various fields, landing for short periods only to fly off again. 

At home, 2 gorgeous male E Bluebirds were hanging out in my neighbor’s tree. 

Peggy Wang
Granville
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