FreeLists / va-bird / [va-bird] Re: Culpeper County Dickcissels, Independence Day

[Christian Kessler <northraven@xxxxxxxxx>]

went out to this spot this morning [70 miles from the beltway, but a 
wonderful field, with lots of thistle plus other flowers, and one area 
thick with sumac & ash].  parked along Rt. 15 & immediately heard a song 
that seemed to fit the book description.  my life Dickcissel was singing 
from a phone line.  spent an hour & a half walking the gravel road 
[Spring Creek Rd] or into the thickets.  good birding and just a 
beautiful field -- take a camera [had I but taken mine, I'd have 
wonderful pictures of a dickcissel singing, he was 30 feet away, easy 
telephoto shot]

bobwhite [started calling about 8:30 but wouldn't give his last name 
until 9:30]
tree swallow
barn swallow
purple martin
phoebe
eastern wood-pewee
carolina wren
tufted titmouse
hermit thrush [rust emphatically on the south end]
mockingbirds
blue jay
common yellowthroat
yellow-breasted chat [just 1, silent]
dickcissel -- 3 males, one juv male [his black throat patch was like my 
son's beard at 17] & 1
         female
indigo bunting  3 males
blue bunting  1 male
field sparrow
song sparrow
cardinal
American goldfinch -- by the pound
red-wing blackbirds [small pond/marsh couple hundred yards down on north 
side of
    Spring Creek Rd. -- rest of birding was on south side of road
orchard oriole 2 males, 3 females
    jck


BlkVulture@xxxxxxx wrote:

>Greetings...
>
>At five PM on 4 July, in sweltering heat, I heard at least six and maybe as 
>many as ten Dickcissels calling from a field in Culpeper County.  
>
>The field is along Spring Creek Road, which is off of Route 15, 2.6 miles 
>from the intersection with US 29 Bypass.  As soon as you turn onto the road, 
>you are surrounded by rich Dickcissel habitat.  Also calling were Chat, 
>Indigo Bunting, Willow Flycatcher, Bobwhite and Orchard Oriole.  I didn't 
>stay in the field very long. 
>
>Cheers...
>
>Todd
>
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>Todd M. Day
>Jeffersonton, VA
>Culpeper County
>BlkVulture@xxxxxxx
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