Today Jerry Rosenband and I cruised around SW Winnebago County, in hopes of finally finding a county Roughlegged Hawk this winter. We failed at that, but we saw many Horned Larks, and good numbers of both Snow Buntings and Lapland Longspurs that were coming into breeding plumage. The largest concentrations of the last two species were seen along Klinger Road, between Edwardsville Road and Montague Road. But our harbingers of spring were three meadowlarks seen along Klinger in two widely-separated spots.