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Subject:	Mercer County LONGSPURS, owls, etc.
From:	jen brumfield <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	jen brumfield <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Sun, 3 Apr 2011 22:33:10 +0000
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Greetings all -
A long venture into the western county fields (Mercer County) with enthusiastic Emil Bacik and Gabe Leidy, turned up highlights of a total of 5,500+ Lapland Longspurs, Northern Harrier, a single PURPLE MARTIN, numerous Vesper Sparrows, American Pipits, Horned Larks, and 6 Short-eared Owls. The actual target of the trip was to find adequate habitat for Smith's Longspur (and thus to find Smith's Longspur) but we struck out today after 7 hours of diligent searching.
Area covered included a Rockford west to the Indiana border, and south of Rockford to Oregon Road. PRIME habitat exists on the south side of Manley Road, exactly where Smith's were found in 2009. Manley Road runs east-west. The fields lie on the south side of Manley, inbetween the intersections of Hill and Erastus Durbin Roads. The Manley Road fields, alone, held 4,400 Laplands. We noticed relatively few Smith's-type fields within the radius searched. However, another fantastic cornstubble field, with loads of foxtail lies on west side of Now Road, a quarter mile south of where it "T's" with Rockford West Road (which runs east-west). Now Road (also called Now T 71) is approximately 3 miles east of the Manley Road fields.
best of birding - Jen

Jen Brumfield
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Cleveland, Ohio
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Bird Illustrator / www.jenbrumfield.com

Birding Tour Guide (Ohio), Local Patch Birding / www.jenbrumfield.com
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