[EBB Sightings] Lapland Longspur in Berkeley

Thanks everyone for all the info, location, description of the bird, etc.
We're planning to take a stab at locating it tomorrow.  I'm just amazed that
people find these "unusual" birds.  I probably would have just blown it off
as a sparrow.  I'm learning more and more not to do that, however.

Laura Gee
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Subject: RE: [EBB Sightings] Lapland Longspur in Berkeley


> The LAPLAND LONGSPUR remains at Cesar Chavez park at the Berkeley Marina.
I
> found it around 5:30 and watched it eat grass seeds in the company of 3-4
> Savannah Sparrows until about 6:30. I believe it's an adult in basic
> (nonbreeding) plumage. I got a couple looks at the bird's breast and noted
a
> dark breast band but no buff color.
> Denise Wight's directions are perfect. I found the bird as soon as I
> arrived. Denise wrote "From the 90 degree bend in the road that heads out
to
> the bay, (Yahoo maps calls these "Unnamed Street" and Virginia Street)
park
> and walk north along the paved trail about 20 yards. The longspur was on a
> grassy mound, just west of the trail and about 10 yards north of a small,
> red fire hydrant."
> Bruce Mast
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