Hello Tweets,

One, possibly two SKYLARKS were observed today at the previous location
near Sequim,CL at 11am after two hours of scouring the large field. One
bird was well observed and photographed at close range, as it sat low to
the ground motionless, except for an occasional eye blink. The bird was
flushed, as mentioned in past reports several times from field to field,
before presumably resting at close range for photos, with great views of
its golden-brown back finely streaked back with golden highlights, brown
streaked crown, extensive streaked breast band from shoulder to shoulder,
buffy supercillium extending past the fairly large black eyes, buffy face
with a light brown earpatch, and whitish necklace that extended from below
the pale throat above the shoulders and around the earpatch to the meet the
supercillium, which made the bird look in pattern and color to that of a
winter-plumaged CHESTNUT-COLLARED LONGSPUR, but that the body profile, tail
pattern, call, and bill structure were wrong for a longspur. The bird was
seen until 12pm, after it finally flew north to more secluded patch of the
field after resting for about 20 min., while being photographed and
observed. Other notable species within the same viewing vicinity included:1
EUR.WIGEON, 1 first-winter GLAUCOUS GULL, 1 adult COOPER'S HAWK, 3
N.HARRIERS,1 S.S.HAWK, 1 MOURNING DOVE, 1 adult N.SHRIKE, and 25-30
W.MEADOWLARKS.

Ruth and Patrick Sullivan
GODWIT at worldnet.att.net