Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2003 00:02:26 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Don Simonson Subject: DARK-PHASE BROADWINGED HAWK, Darnestown, Montgomery County MD Comments: cc: Lydia Schindler , miliff@aol.com, goodrich@hawkmountain.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT At 1:00 pm on Sat April 19, my wife pointed out a small kettle of hawks over the field behind our house. We grabbed our binos and ran outside. 4 were Turkey Vultures, 3 were Black Vultures, 5 were normal Broadwinged Hawks, but one was a DARK MORPH! It was extremely black above, very heavily streaked black below. The kettle gained altitude, then the dark morph set its wings in a fast glide to the east away from the others. I have never seen a dark morph in the East before. Don Simonson, MCP 301.840.0223 email: don.simonson@comcast.net ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================