I just got a note from Denis Qiinn that he saw a dickcissel at Turkey Point
yesterday (10/27). I think this is a first for that site?

He also saw brant flying down the bay, dozens of purple and house finches,
and a gray-cheeked thrush.

It was also an 89 raptor day.

Here's his note on the dickcissel:

The Dickcissel is at the lighthouse- looking from the (head high) Red 
Cedar tree stump to the log or remains of the same tree in the 
weeds/brush. It was sitting on the log looking at me for 10 seconds. 
Yellow eyebrow on head and an oval of yellow on breast. It just 
hopped into brush pile and I never saw it again.


--Pat

Pat Valdata, Elkton, MD | 
"The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards
and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods.
More than any other thing that pertains to the body
it partakes of the nature of the divine." --Plato