As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Sunday 8 June 2014

Rare dickcissel spotted locally in photo

PHIL DICKINSON/Special Correspondent

About a month ago, Gene Schepker, a local birder, found nearly three dozen Bobolinks in a clover field between U.S. 52 and the new Research Parkway in downtown Winston-Salem.

Bobolinks are a grassland bird species that we don’t usually see in Winston-Salem.

The next day, an even less common bird for our area was discovered flying around with these birds — a dickcissel.

Bobolink? Dickcissel? These are strange names for birds. Even friends of mine who watch birds asked me, what on earth is a dickcissel?


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