Timbermaster: Thank you for the wonderful pictures of the Long Billed Curlews - they come to my neck'o the woods every spring and I do enjoy seeing and hearing them. They are rather noisy when they fly - once on the ground they seem to quit squeeling/squawking?
I have seen as many as a couple of hundred in a days field loafing but I have never seen one in my yard or in the adjoining fields. I think they stay around here for about four months.
Had two out of state Hunters in from Washington last week and as we traveled to Melrose, Montana for dinner we saw a mother (?) Long Billed Curlew and two puffball/fur ball chicks right beside pavement on old Highway 91.
I think they eat bugs/ants?
I will pass along your photos.
Thanks again.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy
