Jim and tweeters,
I just happened to see that bird image while looking in on the scores. It
was an American Kestrel sitting on a horizontal wire.

Bob Sundstrom

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim McCoy" <jfmccoy at earthlink.net>
To: "'Tweeters'" <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 12:30 AM
Subject: Football-watching bird


> Are there any football fans out there who happened to see NFL Prime Time
on
> ESPN this evening?
> I wasn't paying much attention, heard the announcer say something like
"that
> doesn't look like a
> raven," and looked up just in time to have a fraction-of-a-second look at
a
> bird on a wire. It was
> a head-on shot of a perched, generally light-colored bird that gave me the
> impression of a small
> raptor, but the look was so brief that it really might have been almost
> anything. It was apparently
> in the stadium at the Ravens' game in Baltimore. Did anyone else see
this,
> and see enough of it
> to theorize an ID?
>
> Jim McCoy
> jfmccoy at earthlink.net
> Redmond, WA
>
>