[tn-bird] Re: Very Odd Coincidence


Here is another coincidence. Yesterday, driving back from the family farm
at Sessums, Mississippi, I was below Tupelo on Highway 45 when a bird
swooped alongisde the car and turned into the wind hovering with its head
away from me. From my vantage point (beneath) I could see it had a white
belly, and its tail and the tips of its wings were dark, almost gull-like
in markings, but it flew like a raptor. I didn't turn around and go back
because of the car being full of peacefully sleeping dogs who would wake
and want out if it appeared we were stopping,  but when I got home and
looked at my bird books, I kept going back to the kite page and studying
them as the best fit. I don't think the tail was forked, but my glimpse was
brief.  I was 15 or 20 miles below Tupelo in a very open area of
cropland...

Carol Reese
Ornamental Horticulture Specialist -Western District
University of Tennessee Extension Service
605 Airways Blvd.
Jackson TN 38301
901 425 4721 email  jcreese@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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