This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01BDA1DD.46B5B600 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Thanks to all who have reported the Dickcissel at the intersection of = Route 85 and Lily Pons Road. I traveled to the area Saturday morning = (6/27/98), and at least two Dickcissels were singing away. They were = more than accomodating. At one point, I was standing only eight feet = away from a Dickcissel, singing mightily from its roadside bush. This = sighting is all the more exciting to me, since (to the best of my = records), this is my first Dickcissel since 1966 (!) I saw the birds in = a field on the South West corner of the intersection. In the field to = the North West, six Horned Larks made an appearance. I then took a = little time at Lillypons Garden. The heat was not too bad (as Claudia = Wilds warns in her book), and the birding was fun. A singing Willow = Flycatcher caught my attention, as well as a Yellow-crowned Night Heron = in the reeds. No bitterns or rails, but seven green herons made an = appearance. I wish I knew more about dragonflies and frogs. They were = everywhere. Wilds also advises looking for sparrows, etc. on a nearby = road called New Design Road. Happily, that road turned up a singing = Grasshopper Sparrow for me. Forty-three birds for a warm and lazy = Saturday morning in late June. I was pleased. Don Burggraf Baltimore ------=_NextPart_000_0009_01BDA1DD.46B5B600 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">