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75 Cooper Hawks over Beltsville today?

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Beth Kantrowitz

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Beth Kantrowitz

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Tue, 26 Sep 2006 02:15:23 -0400

Please reply to original sender, not me :)

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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Beth C. Kantrowitz
5112 41st Avenue, Apt. 106
Hyattsville, MD  20781
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