Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 23:07:14 EST Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Frank Powers Subject: Re: Mall birds, 3/12 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit After checking Sibley's this evening, the closest bird I could find resembling that big one I saw perched in the treetops on the Capitol lawn (sw) near Independence Ave. was a 2nd year Bald Eagle. The similarity to color and streaking on the back and tail especially is very striking. Same for the belly. Anybody seen eagles around the capitol lately? Frank Powers Glen Echo, MD Montgomery Co. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================