Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2000 20:20:58 -0600 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "George M. Jett" Subject: Re: woodcocks and a question MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gulls ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Hartman To: Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 8:48 AM Subject: [MDOSPREY] woodcocks and a question > Yesterday evening Toni and I went to Little Bennett to try > to find the displaying woodcocks that Rob Gibbs mentioned a > couple of days ago. That was quite successful; 8-10 were > vocalizing at the location Ron mentioned, and we saw 2-3 of > them. Thanks for the tip, Ron. We bird at LB frequently, > but almost always in the AM, and we've never seen woodcocks > there. > > We went early (4:30 or so) and walked for a while before > sunset. Didn't see many birds (bad time of day), but we did > see one thing that puzzled us, and want to ask for opinions > from others. For at least 15 minutes while we were walking, > there was what appeared to be a "kettle" of hawks overhead, > about 20, very high, so that we couldn't see much detail. All > appeared to be very white underneath (both wings and body), > with possible black wing-tips. Looked for but couldn't > discern tail-bands on the white tails. Could these have been > Broad-Winged Hawks? It seems pretty early. > > The only other thing we could think of that would be that big > and white underneath is gulls, but we've never seen or heard > of gulls forming a "kettle". > > Opinions would be welcome. > > Bob Hartman > Colesville > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================