I went back in the evening and was able to find a single male where Dave C.
posted directions and a pair where Rob had seen the one in the morning. At
the second spot, the male kept following the female, and both landed near
the road giving me terrific looks.

Dave Powell
Germantown, MD
 


> [Original Message]
> From: Rob Hilton <>
> To: <>
> Date: 7/18/2005 8:49:06 PM
> Subject: [MDOSPREY] Dickcissel continues Montgomery County
>
> This morning at about 11:10 or so, I found a singing
> male Dickcissel off River Road.  The location was
> close to where Dave Czaplak found two on Sunday
> morning.  Going southeast from White's Ferry, the bird
> was located between the mailbox for 24000 River Road
> and the high tension wires, and so a little further
> south than the sign that Dave Cz. mentioned in his
> post.  Dave Powell and I had spent the better part of
> the 10 to 11 am hour searching for the birds (and
> another person was there for a while too), and I heard
> the bird some 20 minutes after he had departed.  The
> song had almost bell-like notes; I heard a set of
> double bell notes for several minutes before I finally
> located the singer.  And was it hot.  Not as hot as
> Hart Miller, but getting there.  
>
> Rob Hilton
> aimophila10
> Silver Spring
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> Maryland
>
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