Monday, November 20, 2017

Grasslands west of Valle

On Saturday November 18th five of us headed out to a new spot, the grasslands west of Valle. This spot had been discovered recently and we were after Sprague's Pipit, McCown's Longspur and Short-eared Owl but dipped on all of them!

Driving in on Willaha County Road we saw dozens of Horned Larks, a few Western Meadowlarks, a Loggerhead Shrike and a Northern Flicker. At Little Rodgers Tanks we had many Horned Larks coming in with just a single Chestnut-collared Longspur among them. I had an American Pipit at the smaller tank. We then walked for two hours across Tin House Flat hoping to flush our target birds but only found more Horned Larks, several Chestnut-collared Longspurs and a couple of Grasshopper Sparrows. We found a Vesper Sparrow at the tanks as we headed back as well as a Golden Eagle and a Crissal Thrasher along the road. And a small group of Pronghorn.

Pronghorn

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