In a message dated 7/22/2004 7:05:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Sue Hamilton <> writes:
Sue Hamilton wrote:

>Today in my Dare's Beach Block, I saw a small accipiter with square tail fly across the road.  (PF CE)(1694)
>
>I would unhesitatingly have called it a Sharpshin if this were any other season of the year.


Mid-July is when post-breeding Sharp-shinned Hawks appear across Maryland.  I had one a couple days ago at North Beach, Calvert County.

Good Birding!

Jim

Jim Stasz
North Beach MD