Then I suspect suitable habitat to be in the likes of Bodmin Moor and Dart
Moor, all well to the the south? I understand where habitat (sometimes)
may be more important than latitude, in the UK as well as the US. At least
with plants, and perhaps with mobile creatures such as birds. Either way,
what Janet describes is wonderful. Closest we have to this is the
behaviour
of killdeer, at this time of year.

Scott who (finally!) enjoyed his first day of the season at 65F in Maine
(a
very chilly corner of Maine)


We have sky-larks here in rural East Sussex probably nesting in fields that
are not intensively farmed, but the numbers are much greater on the South
Downs where there is less farming.

It is the most wonderful sound that takes your breath away, because they
never seem to stop to breathe!
How do they do that? It's a bit like the circular breathing of a
didgeridoo player.

Marina