{"id":5273,"date":"2022-12-15T14:39:45","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T20:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/?p=5273"},"modified":"2022-12-18T07:58:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T13:58:02","slug":"lapland-longspur-movement-december-15-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/lapland-longspur-movement-december-15-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Lapland Longspur Movement, December 15, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2374\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/lapland-longspurs.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2374\" src=\"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/lapland-longspurs.jpg\" alt=\"Lapland Longspurs flying over Montrose Point\" width=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2374\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2374\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lapland Longspurs flying over Montrose Point (click to see the larger version)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A large movement of Lapland Longspurs took place at Montrose on the morning of December 15. Multiple flocks totaling about 150 birds and ranging in size from a handful to 60 made their way south over the Point and Lake Michigan. Some were far offshore and just a few feet above the water. This isn&#8217;t unusual in late fall and early winter, but the numbers are. Interestingly, these birds were flying into a strong southwest wind, which seems counterintuitive, especially considering how small longspurs are. Flocks of Lapland Longspurs are fairly easy to recognize &ndash; loose groups of sparrow-like birds with a noticeable bouncy flight.<\/p>\n<p>Does migration ever really end? It&#8217;s down to a trickle at Montrose, but as of mid December we&#8217;re still seeing birds that can justifiably be called migrants, like these Lapland Longspurs. The only time migration isn&#8217;t easy to detect, at least here in Chicago, is the period from mid January to early February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A large movement of Lapland Longspurs took place at Montrose on the morning of December 15. Multiple flocks totaling about 150 birds and ranging in size from a handful to 60 made their way south over the Point and Lake Michigan. Some were far offshore and just a few feet above the water. This isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[143],"class_list":["post-5273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-winter-bird-reports","tag-lapland-longspur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5273"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5279,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5273\/revisions\/5279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theorniphile.info\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}