Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 17:59:06 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Norman Saunders Subject: Fw: Rough-legged Hawk at Blackwater NWR - directions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry R Lynch" Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 7:36 AM Subject: Rough-legged Hawk at Blackwater NWR - directions > Norm... Here are the directions that I sent to the Voice of the > Naturalist a few minutes ago. Larry > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > I observed a dark phase, Rough-legged Hawk at Blackwater NWR on Monday, > 3/11/02... around 3:30pm. It was along Maple Dam Road and roughly a mile > before Shorters Wharf (when heading West). It was initially observed > sitting in a tree approximately 75 feet from the road. When a Red-tailed > Hawk landed nearby, it flew over and made two passes at the Red-tailed > before moving down the road to another tree and perched. > > "Rough" directions: Drive past the refuge headquarters and past the > entrance to the wildlife loop. Continue until you get to a stop sign > where you will have to go left or right. This is Maple Dam Road, but I > did not see sign indicating this. Go right and proceed a mile or so > until you start seeing marsh on both sides of the road. This is the area > where the Rough-legged Hawk was observed. > > Larry Lynch > Chesterfield County, VA > birder6@juno.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================