Ed, I saw and photographed only one, a female, and I would call it either arcticola (the Arctic subspecies) or alpina (the Cascades-breeding subspecies). I think the former is more likely. Mine wasn?t with the longspurs, but maybe you just mean in the same area.

Dennis Paulson
Seattle


On Sep 27, 2017, at 12:00 PM, tweeters-request at mailman1.u.washington.edu wrote:

> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:12:46 -0700
> From: "Ed Swan" <Edswan2 at comcast.net>
> Subject: [Tweeters] did anyone figure out the subspecies of the Horned
> Larks at Sandy Pt. in Whatcom County?
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> I was wondering if anyone had opinions on the subspecies of the Horned Larks
> that were with the Lapland Longspurs at Sandy Point last weekend?
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> Ed
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