Date:         Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:54:23 EDT
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From:         Paul O'Brien <PObrien776@AOL.COM>
Subject:      Upper Watts Branch Park for 9/15 and 16
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9/15 - 1 Broad-winged Hawk, 1 Least Flycatcher, 3 Red-eyed Vireos,
1Chestnut-sided, 2 Magnolia, 2 Black-throated Green, 1 Wilson's Warbler and a
female Rose-breasted Grosbeak.

9/16 - From 7:15 to 8:15AM, 1 Sharp-shinned, 1 Ad. Red-shouldered Hawk, 3
Red-eyed Vireos, 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 1 Nashville, 2 Magnolia Warblers.
Later, at 10:15 Pat Scheid called to tell me that he was seeing "hundreds of
Broad-winged Hawks".  I got out in time to see a kettle of 120 gaining
altitude on a thermal over the remains of the King Farm.  They then peeled
off to the southwest.  In a few minutes an immature Cooper's Hawk flew along
the same path, but low over the trees as though it had just taken off.  It
seems that this was a broad front of migrating Broad-wings.

Paul O'Brien
Rockville, Mont. Co., MD
pobrien776@aol.com

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