Today at 12:30 I was outside getting in my car to head back to work after
lunch.  I heard an unusual series of bird calls from above, so I looked and
saw 5-6 ghostly white looking birds, with orange bodies and nearly
transparent/translucent wings.  I grabbed my digital camera and snapped a
few pics, and one came out nice enough to tell that these were Red
Shouldered Hawks.   They flew around the neighborhood and a pair landed in
the neighbor's yard across the street.

I had seen one Red Shouldered Hawk in the trees just outside the Route 22
gate to APG over the last few weeks, but I have never seen a group of them
together like this.

The picture is up on my web site at the bottom of the page:

http://monroe.20m.com/redshoulderhawk.htm

The one near the APG gate is shown in the first 2 photos on the page.

Monroe Harden
Havre de Grace, MD

PS We had a formation of about 200 snow geese fly overhead from west to east
yesterday around 9:30 AM.  I did not have a camera handy at that time- my
hands were busy with the snow shovel.