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Fwd: [de-birds] Extralimital? Dickcissels at Warwick, MD

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Shireen Gonzaga

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Shireen Gonzaga

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Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:30:16 -0400

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> From: Steve Kacir <>
> Date: June 1, 2006 10:21:41 AM EDT
> To: 
> Subject: [de-birds] Extralimital?  Dickcissels at Warwick, MD
> Reply-To: Steve Kacir <>
>
> Monday, I did a Route 9 tour, stopping for Western Grebe and Cliff  
> Swallow and enjoying the birds of the season.  I topped it off by  
> making a run for the MD border to check the farm on Old Telegraph  
> Rd for Dickcissels, as they had been there last year.
>
> The Dickcissels are back at the field on Old Telegraph Rd in  
> Warwick, MD.  There were two males, one singing from a support  
> cable for a telephone pole and another singing from the phone lines  
> about a pole past the first.  I neither saw nor heard Grasshopper  
> Sparrows there; although they had been in the area last year.
>
> To reach the spot, take Middle Neck Rd to Old Telegraph Rd, turn  
> left onto Old Telegraph Rd and drive until there is a dirt pull-off  
> on the right side of the road.  The birds were instantly apparent  
> due to their singing Monday afternoon.
>
> Here's a google map for Old Telegraph Rd at Middle Neck Rd, you  
> should be able to get directions using this link (please note the  
> red dot does not indicate anything about the Dickcissel location):
>
> http://www.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=Old+Telegraph+Rd,+Warwick, 
> +MD&ll=39.443783,-75.775709&spn=0.014019,0.039611&om=1
>
> Anyone who is a member of MDOsprey, please feel free to post this  
> information there for me, thanks.
>
> --Steve Kacir
> Norristown, Montgomery Co, PA