Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:50:29 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Hilton, Rob" Subject: Hawk Breakfast in Bethesda MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At about 8:15, a coworker and I were discussing why the pigeons of Bethesda seemed upset. I hadn't quite finished saying that they are upset when a bright metallic-colored ballon upsets them when I amended my sentence with "or that hawk out there can upset them". I watched a brown-backed-looking hawk of some sort surprise and grab a pigeon, taking it in flight (just a couple hundred feet or soe from my office window) over the United Artists movie theater building, then heading east over a side street toward the community park a short block east of Wisconsin Avenue. It was either a Peregrine Falcon or a Cooper's Hawk; between the partly cloudy low early morning illumination and the hawk's sudden appearence from behind a close building I could not definitely name it. It did not dwarf the pigeons like the Northern Goshawk I saw from my office window in October 2000. =20 Less than 60 seconds later an adult Cooper's Hawk flew the same theater building and continued east in the direction of the same park. I hadn't been at my cubicle for an hour. =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 ======================================================================= =========================================================================