[MDOsprey] cooper's hawk in Bel Air
rick (rblom@blazie.com)
Sat, 5 Jun 1999 11:11:44 -0500
Over the past two weeks I have seen an adult Cooper's Hawk on three
occasions near the Festival shopping center on Rt. 24. Each time it was
flying toward the woods behind the Bob Evans, and twice it was carrying
something in its talons. I assume it is breeding in the woods at the upper
end of Harford Glen. Actually, under atlas criteria, this qualifies as at
least a probable, a status not acheived in Harford County during atlas
field work. I had a freshly fledged mid-summer juv on the other side of
Harford Glen along Rt. 152 several years ago, the first confirmation for
the county since the atlas began, although they undoubtedly breed at a
half-dozen locations.
Rick
"Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on
my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather
engaging little things, not at all like the glaring defects in other
people's characters." - Margaret Halsey
Rick Blom
rblom@blazie.com
4318 Cowan Place
Belcamp, Maryland 21017
(410)575-6086