Backyard Hawkwatch - northeast Baltimore City - Fall 1998 -White Ave. between Belair Rd. and Walther Ave. Another bad morning for hawks (too hot), but after 4:15pm, kettle of Broadwings show up along with other hawks. ***A possible imm. light phrase Swainson's Hawk seen with kettle of 318 Broad-winged Hawks at 4:18pm moving southwest-west. This imm. Swainson's has almost same size as Red-tailed Hawk and almost same shape, bandtail looks similar to Broadwings, brown streaked across upper chest with brown spots across almost entire chest and has tan on chest and underneath both wings. After I describe this bird, I went in the house and look through field guide and the description fit the bird. If I am right, it would be my lifelist and a first backyard hawkwatch record. Any guess if this is right description, any help would be great. Thanks... Total for 9/16 Broad-winged Hawk - 788 N. Harrier - 6 Am. Kestrel - 3 Black Vulture - 1 Osprey - 1 Merlin - 1 Unidentified Raptor/Swainson's Hawk - 1 looks like imm. light phrase Total for 1998 (Aug. 23-Sept. 16) 1997 Turkey Vulture - 11 362 Black Vulture - 1 13 Golden Eagle - 0 3 Bald Eagle - 8 9 N. Harrier - 9 25 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 10 106 Cooper's Hawk - 11 82 N. Goshawk - 0 2 Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 51 Broad-winged Hawk - 4779 new record* 4324 Red-tailed Hawk - 4 339 Rough-legged Hawk - 0 13 Osprey - 29 20 Am. Kestrel - 16 23 Merlin - 5 7 Peregrine Falcon - 1 2 Unidentified Raptors - 1 (1 - possible Swainson's Hawk) 7 Total: 4888 5338 Kevin Graff Baltimore, MD ggraff@erols.com