hawk in Silver Spring

Rob Hilton (robert@csa.com)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 08:30:28 -0500


Hello, 

I have a bird report from home for once.  I haven't seent a hawk from or
near my office since the hungry Cooper's Hawk feeding on top of the
delivery van last month.  

Yesterday afternoon as I was walking next door to deliver a Post Office
misdelivery notice that had been mistakenly placed in my mailbox, I saw a
small blue-backed hawk zoom across the street in to a neighbors yard, about
four to six feet above ground, trailed respectfully by a crow.  While I am
not sure what species it was, I suspect it was a/the Merlin that Rick
Sussman sees a half-mile hawk flight away.  The time was about 10 or 15
minutes before sunset.  

A new yard bird, sort of!  

Rob

Rob (Robert) Hilton--robert@csa.com--Bethesda, Md. (very close to
Washington, DC)

"She goes around, opening the doors"--Kristen Hersh