This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_008F_01BF466A.3FFA28E0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable For those interested, the Dickcissel was seen Monday morning, September = 13 at 8:15 AM in a small tree embedded in a multiflora rose at the = lakes's edge behind the Townhouses next to the dam at Lake Elkhorn. The = bird is still with a large group of Weaver Finches. I got to watch it at = close range (15 feet) for five minutes, before it dropped down below the = bank into the brambles and dissappeared. This was a tough bird for me to = see, and I put in well over fours hours of trying before finally seeing = it. It was worth the wait. But I thought I could see black at the base of = the feathers in the throat, and a fairly pronounced chestnut patch on = the wing. The yellow on the breast was also more extensive than I was = expecting for a female. Could this bird be a male Dickcissel in winter = plumage instead of a female ? Can the female show traces of black at the = throat ? If it didn't drown today in the rain, I'm hoping to go back and try for = a photo. A great bird. Darius Ecker (eckerd@prodigy.net) Columbia, Maryland. ------=_NextPart_000_008F_01BF466A.3FFA28E0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">