Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 08:34:47 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "J. B. Churchill" Subject: Dicksissel in Garrett County Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed I clipped this out of an e-mail that I just got from Sally Stebbins of WV (someone I know to be a very reputable birder). The area being described is on Morgantown Road (see the shorebirds page on the MOS website). The e-mail is dated Sat May 6th Four of us went to the reservoir this morning and birded for three hours, tallying 61 species. Not bad. The highlight for me was finding a beautiful singing male Dickcissel in the top of an apple tree very near t= he road, and just across from the very large farm pond on a right-hand bend 1-2 miles from the reservoir. It was my first Dickcissel for east of the Mississippi! We also enjoyed up-close looks at Golden-winged Warbler and Cape May Warbler males. We had good treetop views of Cerulean, as well. ======================================================== John B. Churchill, M.S. Home (304) 292-5072 GIS Analyst Work (304) 293-4832 West Virginia University ext. 4456 Natural Resource Analysis Center http://www.nrac.wvu.edu/users/jbc ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================