Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 13:36:48 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Danny Bystrak Subject: Goshawk, Blue-winged teal, Rough-wings etc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Yesterday, 11 Mar, 2001 at 7:35 am i was sitting on my deck overlooking Jug Bay and saw a large accipiter chase a Mourning Dove directly over my head. It all happened too fast to ID the accipiter, but about 5 minutes later, i saw what appeared to be the bird flying back over Jug Bay. The light gray back confused me (daring not to think "goshawk"), but eventually it landed on the other side and i put my scope on it and cranked it up to 60x at which power i could see a spectacular adult-plumaged GOSHAWK. This is only my second in the wild, and am i ever glad it was an adult! Today (12 Mar, 2001) behind my house on Jug Bay, i saw my first pair of Blue-winged Teals of the year. And at Jug Bay Wetlands sanctuary, i saw my earliest ever (by 9 days) Rough-winged Swallow, in with lots of Tree Swallows. Also today i saw 2 flocks of northbound Whistling Swans -- one with 110 and the other with about 70. danny bystrak bristol, AA Co. MD wiwr@aol.com ========================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ========================================================================= ===========================================================================