Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:17:00 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Rob (Robert) Hilton" Subject: Peregrine over Bethesda Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Some coworkers and I watched an adult PEREGRINE FALCON hunt (or fly around at any rate) over downtown Bethesda, Montgomery County, from our sixth floor office window. It put on quite a show. Once a small ball-shaped starling flock "dove" on it from underneath; it didn't seem to pay any attention. It finally disappeared to the west. This is only the second adult I have noted. And while in the middle of writing the above (some 15 + minutes after the Peregrine left), I saw a large 'ball' of starlings over the Acacia Building with a MERLIN behind them. It circled briefly before heading east. Rob Hilton robert@csa.com Bethesda ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================