I saw an additional 30 or so Broad-winged Hawks flying south directly over
Crabtree Park in Reston at 9:50 AM. As Crabtree Park (formerly Fox Mill
District Park) is 3 to 4 miles northwest of Oak Marr, and my sighting was later
than Fred's, I assume that the hawks I saw were probably not the same kettle
that Fred saw.
Bill Brown
Herndon
----- Original Message -----
From: Frederick Atwood<mailto:fredatwood@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Virginia Bird<mailto:va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:01 AM
Subject: [Va-bird] broad-winged hawk kettle over flint hill, oakton,fairfax co
As we walked into the school after searching for box turtles in the Oak
Marr Park forest with my Field Natural History/Ornithology class we saw a
kettle of about 55 broad-winged hawks and a turkey vulture flying about SW low
over the school (9:40 AM). (We found no box turtles but we did find more than
the usual number of labyrinth spiders.)
Frederick D. Atwood fredatwood@xxxxxxxxx
Flint Hill School, 10409 Academic Dr, Oakton, VA 22124
703-242-1675
http://www.agpix.com/fredatwood
http://www.flinthill.org
http://tea.armadaproject.org/tea_atwoodfrontpage.html ;
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