Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 08:03:37 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Hilton, Rob" Subject: First Merlin / Lingering Chimney Swift, southern Montgomery County MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable When I came back from an appointment yesterday (Wednesday, October 17) at mid-afternoon, I spied a Merlin hunting low over a large ground-level parking lot in downtown Bethesda, careening around in (with?) the wind, putting the fear into Starlings. This is the first Merlin of the autumn I have seen from or near my office building. =20 The afternoon before (Tuesday afternoon, October 16) I saw two Chimney Swifts, one each over different parts of Silver Spring. =20 Cheers,=20 Rob Hilton rhilton@csa.com Bethesda, Md.=20 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================