Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 16:04:56 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Rob Hilton Subject: American Kestrel over Bethesda Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed While eating lunch at my desk today, Jan. 8, I saw an American Kestrel fly from one building to another, where it perched for about 15 minutes. This is the first American Kestrel I've seen in/over downtown Bethesda in at least 6 years, since the weedy overgrown area along the east side of Woodmont between Bethesda and Elm was replaced by the bike trail access and subsequent construction. Rob Hilton Aimophila10@hotmail.com Silver Spring, Md. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================