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Begin forwarded message:
> From: Rosalind Kilroy <>
> Date: September 25, 2006 6:37:52 PM EDT
> To:
> Subject: amazing display of approx 75 Cooper Hawks (I think) over
> Beltsville at 5:45 pm today
>
> Maybe you can educate me. I have been very interested in the hawks
> around my area (Beltsville, College Park). Tonight, my mother,
> husband, neighbor and I witnessed a very large group of what I
> think to be Cooper Hawks overhead, right over our houses. I
> stopped counting at 60. My neighbor, Mr. Macias, counted 74
> hawks. Is this a normal occurance? It was a fantastic sight. Can
> you enlighten us? They were circling and stringing out for about
> 10 minutes, then headed back toward the Agricultural farm. They
> definitely had the light cream colored wings, with the black
> fingertips and the light tail with the dark spots at the bottom of
> the tail from beneath. It was a great display. All of the other
> birds were quite frantic about the whole thing.
> Please let me know more about this if you can.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Rosalind Kilroy
> 4309 Elmwood Road
> Beltsville, MD 20705
>
>
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