Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 12:46:19 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Paul P." Subject: Re: Chestnut-collared Longspurs! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit While Chestnut-collared Longspur in MD in Aug has precedence (an adult male was collected on 20 Aug 1906), it's still an incredible rarity. It would be great if you could provide further details - both on location and identification. If anyone else goes to look for these birds, please provide an update - positive or negative. Thanks. Paul Pisano Arlington, VA cheep@erols.com > Saturday, 8/16, Jim Brighton and I went after shorebirds on the > eastern shore of which I will post later. We stopped at a dirt field > around 1:30pm > just out the east side of Hurlock on Route 392. While scanning > through the > shore birds and larks I picked out a very pale Longspur and then > another, > both were immature birds. The horned larks were chasing the birds from > time > to time, then we picked out a female bird, and while I was looking at > what > was probably a winter plumaged male it flew south across the road with > the > other three birds right with it. They didn't come back. We watched > them > for 15 minutes, and from what it seems it was a family group. I'll > post the > results from the trip later today. > > Hans Holbrook > Columbia, MD > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================