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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 09:47:57 -0500

Thanks - I thought it would be early for migration but if not then I am 
sure that's it - thanks very much.


Bob Ringler wrote:

>Joe,
>   Vultures and buteos are the most likely candidates to be migrating in numbers now.
>
>Bob Ringler
>Eldersburg MD
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>---- Joe Halloran <> wrote: 
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>>Could somebody tell me what I might have seen?
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>>
>>Joe Halloran wrote:
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>>>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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