I'm not sure where Soldier's Delight is, but my husband and I were boating
in Middle River today around 11 a.m. and we spotted a kettle of about 150
Broadwings. Middle River is also in Baltimore County.

At 06:18 PM 9/22/2006, Steve Sanford wrote:
>I saw about 250 migrating Broad-winged hawks between 11 AM and noon 
>today (Sep 22) at Soldiers Delight NEA. I was viewing from near the 
>visitor center. Major kettles ranged from about 30 to 80 birds at a 
>time, gathering mainly over Deer Park Rd. Winds were fairly strong 
>from the southwest and it was almost 100% cloudy. I'll be interested 
>to see if this correlates with big numbers at Cromwell Valley 
>despite what would seem to be the opposite of favorable conditions. . . .
>
>Steve Sanford
>Randallstown MD
>scartan ^at^ verizon ^dot^ net

--Pat

Pat Valdata, Elkton, MD | 
"The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards
and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods.
More than any other thing that pertains to the body
it partakes of the nature of the divine." --Plato