Considered rare in the state, this species is a regular breeder in central and Southeastern Montana and can be easy to find…IF you know where to look. Thanks to Dalton Spencer for finding an alfalfa field in Dawson county that was loaded with singing males, along with vast numbers of butterflies feeding on the flowering alfalfa. I arrived there a few days later, and in the nick of time, as the field was harvested just two days after I made this observation, and is no doubt now a dry patch of silence (unfortunate, although that is another whole can of worms…..).
