Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2001 12:53:55 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Steve Sanford Subject: Golden Eagle at Cromwell Again MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit At 9:10 this morning Jim Meyers and I saw an adult Golden Eagle at Cromwell Valley Park, Baltimore County. We saw it rather low overhead near the picnic table area up the hill west of the Willow Grove parking area. It was gradually climbing and circling to the south out of sight. It appeared that it might have emerged from the top of the hill. Its southward movement was not very resolute, so it might be staying in the area for a while. The Golden Eagle that Peter Lev saw there yesterday was also an adult, though a lot further north and east when he saw it, he says. Today's eagle emerged about the same time as a number of Black Vultures came up, as though from local roosts. I stayed until about noon. Overall there was very little evidence of hawk migration: 2 Sharpies, a local-type Coopers, and a few probably-local Red-tails. Hundreds of Robins and dozens of Waxwings, but no unusual passerines. Incidentally, FYI, Jim has posted, on the back of the bulletin board there, a record of the impressive counts of Broadwings there in September 2001: 9/10- 151 9/15- 292 9/16- 2288 9/17- 2182 9/18- 459 9/19- 15 9/23- 3 Sept Total = 5390 Steve Sanford tanager@bcpl.net Randallstown MD Baltimore County ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================