Dickcissel profile notes breed range and habits
The male dickcissel resembles a small meadowlark with a heavy bill and chestnut wing patch, while the female is like a streaked house sparrow with a yellow throat. It nests in 4-5 pale blue eggs in a ground level cup, favors open grain or hay fields, and winters in the tropics. Breeding ranges include Montana to the Great Lakes, south to Texas, with a former eastward distribution. The song is a repeating dick-dick-cissel. Information from Les Winkeler and the National Audubon Society Field Guide.
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Montana
Great Lakes Region
Texas
Gulf Coat
Tropics
Atlantic Coastal Plain
Midwest
Shawnee insect day Aug 28 at War Bluff Sanctuary
Shawnee Audubon Society hosts its 10th annual Insect Awareness Day August 28 at War Bluff Valley Sanctuary north of Golconda. Activities run 3 to 5:30 pm with entomologists guiding butterfly and insect hunts, then poetry and musical tributes at 7:30 and an 8 pm performance by The Old Fishskins. Details via Shawnee Audubon site or (618) 457-6367.
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Golconda
Shawnee Audubon Society
War Bluff Valley
War Bluff Valley Sanctuary
Eddyville Blacktop
Mountain feists aid game warden in squirrel hunts in Virginia
Greeneville Va AP mountain feists Katie and Midge assist John Berry a Virginia game warden and squirrel hunter as they track and tree fox and gray squirrels. The dogs use bark scent and sight to locate game while Berry stresses patient stalking and skill honing for hunting and other species.
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Greeneville
Berry
Canada
Midwest
Virginia
Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries
Fishing Report Shows Diverse Activity Across Lakes
Cedar Lake and Crab Orchard report crappie in 6 to 18 feet with minnows and jigs. bluegill in 3 to 8 feet with wax worms and crickets. catfish active on stink baits and night crawlers. bass action varies with spinnerbaits and crankbaits. Devils Kitchen and Kinkaid show steady crappie and muskie up to 42 inches. Line No. 6 boat launch noted for access. Lake Murphysboro fish good on catbait and worms. Lake of Egypt bass and bluegill active with plastics and wax worms. Little Grassy reports early morning bass and night crawlers. Mermet Lake slow with catfish common. Ohio River Smithland Pool steady catfish. Rend Lake has good catfish, bass, bluegill, and improving crappie near harbor walls and rip rap.
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Cedar Lake
Devils Kitchen
Horseshoe Lake
Kinkaid Lake
Murphysboro
Lake of Egypt
Mermet Lake
Ohio River
Smithland
Rend
Rend Lake anglers tease with snagged bass tale
Les Winkeler recalls an outdoors outing on Rend Lake where one angler hooks a fish after a snag, prompting jokes about his fishing prowess. The trio, Jenkins and the writer, note a brief yellow bass bite but fail to find schooling white bass.
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Jenkins
Morgan
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Les Winkeler
National Audubon Society
Shawnee Society
Shawneeaudubon.org
Springfield
Illinois Department of Natural Resources Division of Fisheries
Acre
Illinois
Ilinois
Ifishillinois.org
Les.winkeler
Thesouthern
Fishing Report
Harrisburg-Raleigh
Harrisburg
Winkeler
Southern
S. Washington St
DuQuoin, II
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