Yesterday I decided to do some birding east of Colorado Springs after an appointment in town and as I drove on Squirrel Creek Rd I heard a Dickcissel. When I turned around and drove back I found at least 4 and likely 6 Dickcissels were singing actively in sunflower fields on both sides of the road (would seem to indicate they are guarding territory and that females are likely nesting in there). Though I didn't remember reading about Dickcissels along Squirrel Creek Rd in posts here this year, I subsequently found a post recently by Stephen Getty of a singing Dickcissel on Milne Rd about 1 km south of Squirrel Creek Rd in an overgrown lot. The location I saw the Dickcissels yesterday was several miles from Milne Rd. On ebird there was a sighting of 3 Dickcissels much further west at Squirrel Creek Res. The location I had them was east of Williams Creek (there aren't many crossroads out there). I will look thru more online maps to see if I can pin the location down better. I got a couple of pics of one of the Dickcissels that I have uploaded onto my Birds and Nature blog <http://birdsandnature.blogspot.com/> along with discussion about the use of sunflower habitat.
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