The ALDER FLYCATCHER found and reported by Stan Arnold on the 21st 
was still singing at 10:30 this morning, Sunday, 6/24, at the place 
Stan found it  -- along Ballenger Creek Rd., about 100yds. south of 
its intersection with Mountville Rd.  This location is less than 2 
miles NW of Adamstown (a once lovely old town now overrun with modern 
suburbia) and 5+ miles south of the City of Frederick.

Just as interesting, and just as we were about to leave, a male 
DICKCISSEL flew into a large dead tree at the same spot and started 
to sing from a high perch.  Other birds in the immediate area 
included Indigo Bunting, Common Yellowthroat, Eastern Kingbird, and 
Brown Thrasher.

We toured other roads in the vicinity, like Cap Stine Rd., which in 
the past has had Dickcissels, without coming across another one.  We 
did find a Grasshopper Sparrow perched along Oland Rd. between New 
Design Road and Route 85.

Like many other people, we failed to find the previously reported 
King Rail at Lilypons. Lilypons did have singing Warbling Vireo and 
Willow Flycatcher, in the same locations as reported by Stan on the 
21st, and Purple Martins and Tree Swallows all over.  And if you like 
watching Red-winged Blackbirds chasing Green Herons, Belted 
Kingfishers, and each other, Lilypons is the place to be.

Good Summer Birding!

Mike and Joy Bowen
Montgomery Bird Club
Bethesda, MD

D.H. Michael Bowen
8609 Ewing Drive
Bethesda, MD  20817
Telephone: (301) 530-5764
e-mail:  dhmbowenATyahooDOTcom