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Re: SEWR & Dickcissel retraction

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Les Roslund

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Les Roslund

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Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:58:17 -0400

JB - Welcome to the club!  Several years ago at the Easton Waste Water
Treatment Plant our own Dick Kleen identified the song of a "Dickcissel" but
was unable to find the bird.  Over the next several weeks a number of our
top level birders visited the place and had the same experience.  This one
seemed to be a very elusive bird.  I was there twice, and heard the bird
without seeing it.  Being retired - and a little bit stubborn sometimes - I
decided one day that I would -- Find That Bird!  So I kept at it for a long
time, with binocs and scope and patience - and eventually got a fine view of
a --- Sedge Wren!
	Several of the others came by for the second viewing, for we were
all quite happy with the Sedge Wren being there, and were quite well
convinced that there never was a Dickcissel at that site during that period.
	As a native Nebraskan, I am pretty familiar with that species, and
did not think the song had been quite right for the Dickcissel.  Also, the
Dickcissels, when singing, tend to favor perch sites that are pretty high,
often in plain sight - and ours at the WWTP had been a very secretive bird.
	Sedge Wren is certainly a nice species to find anyhow.

Les Roslund

Talbot County
Easton MD 21601