Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 22:20:15 +0000 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: sue hamilton Subject: Fwd: [md-smas] Mississippi Kite in St. Mary's City Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed >From: ejwilloughby@aol.com >Reply-To: md-smas@yahoogroups.com > >Hello, everyone. Yesterday morning, Sunday, July 7, at 9:40 a Mississippi >Kite flew over my house in St. Mary's City. It was flying at treetop >level, >40 to 50 feet overhead (about 15-20 meters), circled once, and disappeared >beyond the trees, giving about 5 seconds of good view. It had large, >pointed, slate-gray wings, an ample, slightly forked slate gray tail, a >white >crown and face that blended into the gray breast and belly. It was about >the >size of a Peregrine, which I thought it was for about half a second at >first, >until I saw the shape of the tail, and the all gray, unpatterned >coloration. >(I sent this note out yesterday morning, but got the wrong address, so was >not notified it could not be delivered until today. ) Ernie > _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================