Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 00:31:43 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Jane Kheel Stanley Subject: Northern Goshawk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Looking out the window onto our garden in Bethesda this afternoon, at a distance of about twenty-five feet, I saw what can only be a Northern Goshawk. I wasn't able to see the white supercilium, but it was a large, bulky bird, with a long, excipitur-like tail. I immediately supspected a Goshawk, since that is the only excipitur in this area in the winter. The second I saw it, my instinct sent me spinning for my camera. Then I remembered it was at the shop. I spun around to get another look, but it had flown off. A non-birder who was with me witnessed the bird for a longer time. I questioned her extensively about it. She said that the bird had a dark, uniform gray back with a light gray stomach and bright white undertail coverts. When I checked my Sibley guide, the posture matched exactly what I had seen. In light of everything, I am 99% sure that this was a Goshawk. Rick Stanley (teen birder) Bethesda, Md. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================