Fran Saunders wrote:
>
> Jane, where were you within the NWR???
>
> Fran Saunders
> MOS Website Director
> Silver Spring, MD
>
> "This Friday just before 2 in the afternoon Barbara Dowell and I were
> watching a kettle of Bald Eagles raising upward on the thermals,  when
> we noticed a much smaller bird circling which had a brillant white head
> when the sun hit it.  When it banked the black and white markings and
> forked tail showed it to be a Swallow-tailed Kite.  We watched it for
> several minutes before we were distracted by more eagles and were unable
> to relocate it."
>
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To be more specific re: the location of the Swallow-tailed Kite - it was
seen over an open field from a point about mid-way between the 2 ends of
Old Field Road, which in turn is about 3 miles north Key Wallace Drive
and the Visitors Center.

Jane Fallon
Bowie


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