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Scissor-tailed Flycatchers, yes!



Marilyn Westphal and I drove down the mountain this morning hoping to see
the Scissor-tailed Flycatchers near Monroe, NC, and our hopes were
fulfilled. By the time we arrived around 930 am, two or more of the young
had left the nest, and the adults were quite active over the fields
adjoining the utility tower that holds the nest.

We saw two or possibly three young -- one of them sitting the whole time in
view next to the Olsen's driveway near the cemetery.  During our visit the
male fed it twice.

Thanks to the Olsens for welcoming all the visitors these past few weeks.

We came home via the Dellview community in northwest Gaston County, where
we searched for Dickcissel.  Jo Ann Martin had given us directions to the
spot where she and Simon Thompson found this species earlier this summer.
That field, on Baxter Rd. north of Dellview Rd.,  held no Dickcissels when
we stopped there this afternoon, but further on, on Baxter across the next
road north, we did find a male, singing lustily as it perched in the
windblown foliage atop a deciduous tree.  Just down the road a Grasshopper
Sparrow stopped us as it sang from a fence post beside the road.

Len Pardue, Asheville, NC