Margaret Peak Nature Preserve

Yesterday I woke up at 6:30 am to meet my grandmother at my parents house to embark on a quest to find my very first Dickcissel. For the past month I have been receiving emails about how Dickcissels are now being found in every good suitable habitat. Now I have tried for this bird once this year with no luck, and once last year at this very location with no luck. But yesterday was a new day and I was able to find one female Dickcissel sitting up on a grassy weed right next to a song sparrow. The Dickcissel has now become my 510th ABA bird and my 428th ABA bird this year. Other notable birds for the day were throngs of Indigo Buntings, Cedar Waxwings, a pair of Willow Flycatchers, a pair of Pied-billed Grebes and one lone Grasshopper Sparrow calling from within the Soy Bean fields.