Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 20:52:11 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Lynn & Hal Subject: Kent Island leucistic red-tailed hawk MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable While hunting unsuccessfully for the sandhill crane around the southern = end of Kent Island yesterday (2/18) about mid-morning, Hal Wierenga & I = saw a leucistic red-tailed hawk at the Crosswinds development, just = south of Tower Gardens. The head, tail and underparts appeared normal, = but the back and upper surface of the wings were mostly white. A few = scattered feathers or groups of feathers were normal, especially in the = secondaries. It was last seen heading north over Tower Gardens. Lynn Davidson=20 Arnold, Anne Arundel County, MD =20 hal.lynn@erols.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================