Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 14:54:23 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Paul O'Brien Subject: Upper Watts Branch Park for 9/15 and 16 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================