[EBB Sightings] Berkeley L Longspur digi-pix

  Wow! Thanks, George, for the great pictures.
  And I'll add my thanks for the great directions to
the longspur's hideout (?). (Sorry, there've been so
many messages about this that I can't remember exactly
who to thank.)
  I, too, was out by the fire hydrant late this
afternoon. What amazed me was how unfazed the bird
seemed by all the activity around it. While the
sparrows foraging in the same dried grass clumps
paniced and flew off a number of times, it just kept
pecking and picking at the grass. As some other
birders out there said, we could almost have stepped
on it. Quite a cool character!
  Before I left, I spotted a couple of
black-shouldered kites in the brushy field between the
hotel and the highway--one preening, the other hunting
and trying to fend off a harassing crow.
Have a good week, all.
Alan Howe


		
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