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Re: Question: Hawks over Baltimore?

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Joe Halloran

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Maryland Birds & Birding

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Tue, 8 Mar 2005 09:36:03 -0500

Could somebody tell me what I might have seen?


Joe Halloran wrote:

> Last Friday about 6 pm I was on Preston St near Charles in Baltimore.  
> I looked up into the evening sky and way up there I saw a more than a 
> dozen large birds soaring in large circles.  I got out my binoculars 
> and watched for a minute - they were not flapping and the wings were 
> straight across, not the TV dihedral - didnt look like crows or sea 
> gulls.  And they were quite high.  I looked away for a moment and when 
> I looked again they were gone.  I'm wondering if anyone else saw them 
> and would they have been migrating hawks or what?  Thanks for any 
> info....
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