Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 19:30:19 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Keith Eric Costley Subject: Northern Goshawk at Ft. McHenry (12/04) Comments: To: ppeters@bcpl.com MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT I arrived at Ft. McHenry at 11:45 today and found Jim Peters, in his SUV, desperately trying reach me on his his cell phone. When he saw me standing there; he jumped out (I'm not sure he used the door at all) and nearly shouted "there's Northern Goshawk preening near the second feeder." After teleporting to site, I found an immature Goshawk sitting ten feet off the trail and only as high as my waist. It was actually seven feet up in tree that grew on the slope. The Goshawk faced away from us and turned it head around to look at the feeder. When Jim joined me, he pointed out every field mark: the white supercillium; the white spots on it's greater secondary coverts; the heavier bill; and the jagged tail bands. When it flew a short distance to the trees above the seawall I ran back to my car for my Sibley's. We found it again near the wetland sign and watched for another four minutes before it flew over our shoulder's and out over lawn. I could then see the pointed feathers in it's tail. The Goshawk is bird number 101 on Jim's fort list. He also reported seeing an American Tree Sparrow, a Common Golden Eye, a Long-tailed Duck, and a Redhead during the Fort's First Wednesday Walk (with Mary Chetelat), or earlier this week. Keith Eric Costley oriolekec1@comcast.net Randallstown, BC ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================