Date: 12/18/25 11:08 am From: Ellen Feeney via groups.io <ellenf92126...> Subject: Re: [SanDiegoRegionBirding] Longspur followup
Not finding them in past hour. Flock of Horned Larks gets smaller each time they flew back and forth.
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On Thu, Dec 18, 2025 at 9:10, <lehman.paul...> via groups.io<lehman.paul...> wrote: Just a short follow-up note to say that while I was there we only saw the duller, female looking Thick-billed for the first while we were there sifting through the larks, which occasionally would all get up and fly around and move a bit, sometimes farther away, sometimes closer. We never saw the male with the rufous shoulder and the slight dark patch on the breast that Angela also photographed. And after a while, we couldn't even find the female anymore, even though we kept sifting through the Horned Larks back and forth, although there's no reason to think it flew very far off. Be aware that the birds are often in short grass, but tall enough to obscure a fair percent of the birds as they shuffle around, especially a ground-hugging longspur. At other times, some of the birds landed in a open gravel, dirt area right next to the two flags or even on a paved road. So the process could well take a while and one might need the birds to shift around and get closer depending where they've set up shop.
Paul Lehman, San Diego
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