Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 09:29:24 -0500 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Leo Weigant Subject: Re: NORTHERN GOSHAWK in Darnestown, MONT CO Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=__PartC9970B54.0__=" This is a multi-part message in MIME format... --=__PartC9970B54.0__= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline You saw this bird about 4PM? Hmmm. While driving in heavy traffic on Martin Luther King Blvd. in Baltimore, about 2:15 yesterday, I saw a large accipiter powering through the sky, scattering rock doves as he went, headed in a southwest direction. With only a few seconds' glimpse I could not see whether the eye stripe was there and would have just let it slide out of memory, but your report made me wonder. Leo Weigant >>> don.simonson@COMCAST.NET 12/28/03 4:08:01 PM >>> I just saw a NORTHERN GOSHAWK in my yard in Darnestown, Montgomery County (today 12/28/03). ( 1 mile west of Seneca Road and Springfield Road in Darnestown). It was an immature, brown, thickly marked below. It flew toward the east (toward Seneca Road) after I watched it perched for about 30 seconds. The bird was huge, with powerful wingbeats the superciliary stripe was seen well. It was very stocky for an accipiter which drew my attention immediately. Happy to have a new yard bird, just made it onto the 2003 list. ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= --=__PartC9970B54.0__=-- =========================================================================