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Hi James, Hi All, The Lapland Longspur that was at my feeder for 3 days earlier this month spent all its time sitting in trees and bushes when not eating seed under the feeder or feeding in the nearby field. It even flew into a thick blue spruce tree and danced around the trunk 3 times in order to shake off a Merlin that harassed it mercilessly the last two days it was present. - cheers, Clarence
PS: Good Job on the Gyrfalcon ID!
--- On Sun, 10/12/08, James Hirtle <jrhbirder@hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: James Hirtle <jrhbirder@hotmail.com>
> Subject: [NatureNS] Lapland Longspurs and trees
> To: "Naturens Naturens" <naturens@chebucto.ns.ca>
> Received: Sunday, October 12, 2008, 11:02 PM
> This might be a topic for further discussion, but until
> yesterday, I would not have thought that Lapland longspurs
> would land in a tree. I've never seen them other than
> on open fields or in areas where vegetation was present
> until yesterday. Some longspurs flew up with sparrows from
> the dunes into trees on a little island spit in the middle
> of the beach at Cherry Hill. I knew that they were
> longspurs as I got a look at them before flight and watched
> them through my scope for quite some time, determining also
> that these were juvenile birds. Has anyone else ever seen a
> longspur land in vegetation such as a tree or high bush? I
> would be most interested in comments on this and I believe
> that others might find this topic of interest.
>
> This morning David Walmark, Pat Gladman and I took a run
> out to Second Peninsula. Of note there was a winter wren, a
> yellow warbler, and two blackpoll warblers. Also, we saw a
> very late Osprey.
>
> Tonight around 21:30, I was driving up through Lower Rose
> Bay, when an owl came swooping across the road and landed on
> the wires beside the highway. It was my first sighting of a
> great horned owl this year although I had heard them at a
> number of locations.
>
> James R. Hirtle
> East LaHave
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