visiting San Antonio Texas to escape a cold snap

Featuring rare prairie birds discovered by Bob Doe in January 2007: Mountain Plovers, a Sprague's Pipit, and a very distant longspur shot through a 30x telescope and enlarged by software to remove vignetting.

13s	Mountain Plover  running in a field
7s	Mountain Plover  chasing a Killdeer
41s	Mountain Plover  feeding in a field
7s	Mountain Plover  chasing another into flight
28s	Sprague's Pipit  walking in the median of a country road
10s	McCown's Longspur  flock flying but not close
28s	McCown's Longspur  male preening but videotaped through a spotting scope at 300 feet

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