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Dickcissel and Death



When I went to Anilorac Farm (I think 2 weeks ago now) I did see the
female Dickcissel. She was initially on the wire and then flew off into
the grass on the same side of the road as the nest last year, but much
further over the hump of the hill where she would not be easily visible
unless you walked the field, which, incidentally, Mr Snipes has given me
permission to do. He seems very amenable to people wandering around his
farm, all you have to do is ask. And it pays off to do since those two
little farm ponds behind his house have had marvellous assortments of
birds: Merlin, Osprey, GB Herons, Green Herons and once a Harrier.


I have had singing Blackpoll Warblers on my pecan tree for the last couple
of days. Wonderful, but they are the harbingers of summer and thus
death--the death of migration anyway. Every silver cloud has its dark
lining. 
Shantanu Phukan


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> From: Kate Finlayson <katefin@yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 08:16:49 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: Probable Dairyland Dickcissel
> To: Kent Fiala <fiala@ipass.net>, Carolinabirds <carolinabirds@duke.edu>
> 
> Wednesday afternoon I was out at Anilorac(on Dairyland
> Rd.) with Marsha Stephens and we saw the bobolinks,
> grasshopper sparrows, warbling vireos, orchard
> orioles, indigo bunting, blue grosbeak, yellow
> warbler, green heron, kingbird but no dickcissel.
> Hope the little male shows if she is there! Not much
> luck of finding another male 'round here. Was she in
> the grasses or on the phone line?
> Kate
> 
> 
> --- Kent Fiala <fiala@ipass.net> wrote:
> > I stopped by Dairyland road this evening and got a
> > few poor glimpses of
> > what was likely a female Dickcissel in the vicinity
> > of last year's
> > nest.  I still have not heard a singing male this
> > year.  Bobolinks are
> > still present.  I may have seen a couple hundred and
> > that was probably
> > not all; they kept coming from out of sight over a
> > hill.  I also heard a
> > Warbling Vireo and of course Grasshopper Sparrows,
> > and I also saw an
> > Osprey plunge into the pond and come up with a fish!
> > -- 
> > Kent Fiala
> > near Chapel Hill, NC
> > 
> 
> 
> =====
> Kate Finlayson
> N. Chatham Co.,N.C.
> katefin@yahoo.com
> 
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SHANTANU PHUKAN
Assistant Professor of Indian Literature, Urdu and Hindi
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill