Joe,
   Vultures and buteos are the most likely candidates to be migrating in numbers now.

Bob Ringler
Eldersburg MD

 
---- Joe Halloran <> wrote: 
> 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....
> >
> >