Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 16:16:48 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Tom Beal Subject: poss Goshawk near Bowie MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Was walking to the school bus stop this afternoon ~2:00. Saw an accipiter cruising over the woods across the street, seemed very large, almost red-shouldered size. It cruised low over the street, but did not have my binoculars, so I couldn't see any real detail. But from the woods on my side of the street a sharp-shinned hawk came up to meet the first hawk. The sharp-shinned's wing span wasn't even half the first accipiter's. It completely ignored the sharp-shinned and after a few passes they went their separate ways. The sharp-shinned looked tiny compared to the first bird, possible/probable Goshawk? Tom Beal Glenn Dale, MD ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================