Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!decwrl!csus.edu!ucdavis!csusac!unify!magpie!grp From: grp@unify.uucp (Greg Pasquariello) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Back from Vermont Message-ID: Date: 15 Aug 90 16:18:32 GMT References: <90226.182022JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET> Sender: news@Unify.Com (news admin) Reply-To: grp@unify.com Organization: Unify Corporation, Sacramento, California Lines: 33 In-Reply-To: JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET's message of 14 Aug 90 23:20:22 GMT In article <90226.182022JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET> JAHAYES@MIAMIU.BITNET writes: > And this will be a bit scatter-brained, I fear.... > > Strangely, the best bird of the trip we saw the day before we left; > as we walked down High Street in Oxford, Ohio, a large plank glided > overhead. Perfectly flat wing position. Dark brown, a bit lighter > on the head; eagle-sized. LARGE eagle-sized. My second golden eagle. > Way out here? How strange...but the weather was pretty freaky, a > big front was coming through...it's not surprising that the birding > on the trip was only so-so after that. > > Still, we saw some interesting birds. Along eastern highways through > Ohio, New York, and Vermont, perching hawks were abundant, especially > Red-Tails and Red-Shoulders, with two Broad-Wings for spice. In > Massachusetts we saw a Marsh Hawk about ten miles west of Worcester > along the Mass Pike. Turkey Vultures, of course, were abundant darn > near everywhere. In Massachusetts, there are no Marsh Hawks; they are Moshawks. :-) > > But we're back in Ohio now and getting ready for the flood of little > green birds in the fall....good birding, folks! Can't wait for my first West Coast fall migration. Actually it's already begun! > -------- > Josh Hayes, Zoology Department, Miami University, Oxford OH 45056 -- -Greg Pasquariello grp@unify.com