Some quick notes on the Smith’s Longspur that was seen by m.obs. at Mt. Trashmore this morning but not identified until 4-5 hours later (by whom???—thank you to this person) :
A big group of us looked this evening, and we had the continuing Snow Bunting and 1/2 Lapland but no Smith’s. We only had about an hour and change of light to look, so we could easily have missed it.
And not to intrude on the wonderful Alameda review teams territory a bit, BUT considering that Longspurs have been reported at this site since Nov. 7, and many (most?) of the reports prior to today have no photo documentation,everyone that has reported Longspurs from trashmore in the last nine days should go back and look through their photos so we can maybe find out how long this thing has actually been here!!
If the bird is refound tomorrow, please post here as well as to whatever Telegram chat groups, as this is a bird of statewide interest.
