Smith's Longspur, Jaeger sp - Sanilac Co 9-22

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All,
 
I was shocked by a 30 second visit from a male SMITH'S LONGSPUR on the  
breakwall at Lexington in Sanilac County this evening. I initially saw it  
peripherally as it flitted down towards the inner beach, not having seen enough  to 
know what it was at all, I pished and screech-owl whistled for a minute and  
when that didn't work I gave up on it temporarily and went back to scoping the  
beach to the North. When movement caught my eye again I pulled my bins up to 
see  the male SMITH'S on one of the huge chunks of the breakwall. He still had a 
lot  of alternate plumage and sat for about 25 seconds before flying further 
out and  disappearing into the boulders giving a great look at the 2 white 
outer  tail feathers on each side and the bright wing-bars. I searched for him 
for  another half hour to no avail. It was pretty windy but hadn't rained yet.
 
While walking back to the car I noticed that the gull flock up the  beach was 
scattering and scoped an immature JAEGER causing the fuss and chasing  a 
couple of the gulls further north.
 
Good birding,
 
Scott Jennex
Ferndale
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