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["Ritchison, Gary" <Gary.Ritchison@xxxxxxx>]

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From: Richard [mailto:Richard07@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
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Subject: gyrfalcon spotting north of baltimore md ?

 
> > I think  I saw a Gyrfalcon in Towson.
> > It looked like this ...  

<http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/enlarged.asp?imageID=17707>  
 
> > Richard 
 

Dear Audubon Folks,

If this is important information, please
pass it along and let me know what I should
do about it.  I am a sub-amateur birder in
Baltimore.  On Monday before noon, I saw
calmly perched on a lamppost above a busy
intersection in Towson -- a densely populated
northern suburb -- a very large whitish bird,
with gray speckeled wings, looked like an
owl, but its head was round like a bullet
and smaller (narrower) than its shoulders.
Looked male to me, but that's only a guess. 
Very magestic, and didn't seem to mind the
moderate traffic twenty feet below. 

On the internet (enature.com) it looked to 
me to be a Gyrfalcon.  My friend Steve Estes
fwd'd me the following, and we're wondering 
if a rare Gyrfalcon may have escaped from 
KY to MD.  I have not phoned the numbers ... 

Richard Tryzno Ellsberry
Baltimore Maryland
Towson University
(410) 377-4972
Richard07@xxxxxxxxxxx
 
 
> Sighting  either  a  gyrfalcon in  white  phase  or  a snowy owl would

> be  
> extremely rare ,at  this  latitude  and  at this time  of year.  I'm
not  
> saying  its  impossible   but .... a white  gyrfalcon would   normaly
be
> in Iceland 
>  or  Greenland however  it might just be  this  one
  
<http://www.surfbirds.com/phorum/read.php?f=102&i=4740&t=4740>
    
> Author: Kathy Caminiti
> Date:   10-27-06  12:01
> 
> Hello All !
> 
> Please keep a lookout for a Gyrfalcon that was  lost yesterday by a
> falconer
> in Verona, Ky. (Boone County).
> 
> The  batteries went dead in the transmitters. And the Gyrfalcon does
have
> jesses  on.
> 
> Any sightings, please call the falconer Paul Bronc at 859-240-2418
right
> away.
> 
> Good Birding,
> Kathy  Caminiti
> 859-689-4166
> 
> 
> 
> you should report  what you saw  to  the  local  audubon  society as 
> well_http://www.audubon.org/chapter/md/md/welcome.htm_ 
> (http://www.audubon.org/chapter/md/md/welcome.htm) 
>  
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