Out the other day, I found a couple of juvenile Lapland Longspurs that were still hanging around. I would have suspected that they would have headed south already, but apparently not all of them. I tried to get a couple of photos of them but they left a lot to be desired.
I'm at the start of some unexpected days off, and managed to get out on a great hike today (more on that in another post – I really need to stop taking a hundred photos every outing). I again came across a couple of longspurs, but this time I managed to get a few decent shots.
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Lovely shots the ‘Tundra’ if that’s the the right word for the low vegetation give the shots a superb texture. We only see Lapland (Buntings over here)occasionally in winter and they tend to be in stubble fields so to see them surrounded by Arctic vegetation seems more ‘natural’.
Thanks Alan. Yes Tundra is the right word. That is “Dry Tundra”. I was actually beside a river and the bird was up on the bank at pretty much eye level. It gave me that view from the ground without having to get down on my stomach.