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Nancy and I were walking along the shore when I saw a passerine only about 20 feet ahead of us, hunkered down in an opening in the snow. I said "stop!, longspur". Nancy got a look at it, but it flushed as I was putting down my scope. It flew off giving a 2 and 3 note soft rattles. The bird circled around, and we backed up to see if if would land again, but it did not. All we really saw was it seemed to have a lot of buffy colors about the head and a buff-colored supercillium. We continued on, but then came back to see if it had returned. We found it again, and this time we were able to sneak up on it and get some photos and study it. This time around it was loosely associating with a small group of Horned Larks. We also sent the images to Jon Dunn and Chris Howard to get their opinions. Description: This bird was smaller than the Horned Larks nearby. He spent most of the time at the edge of snow clearings, scooting along on the ground like a dog with anal gland issues. From the side, the face and head looked somewhat golden, and the bill pale based with a dusky tip. The crown was finely streaked there was a narrow white eye ring, and buffy supercillium. The auriculars had a dark brown border along the lower edge. The back was buff colored with dark brown streaks. There were two faint buff colored wing bars and the lack of crimson color in the wing bars rules out Thick-billed. The chest had extensive splotchy black markings all the way to the lower belly, and according to Jon, the black markings were more extensive than typical for Thick-billed.
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