Hi all,
Late this afternoon, about 4:30pm, a Merlin was seen high atop a tree 
alongside Route 17, slightly east of the geese viewing shelter at Dead 
Creek. I don't know whether it was because I was stopped there looking at 
it, or whether others saw it too in the tree, but then two other cars 
stopped to check it out. Each of those cars contained good photographers 
with very long lenses, and so both of them got some nice shots of it.
During the whole episode it remained in the same spot up there, and so I 
didn't see it in flight.

My apologies also for my last posting some days ago, which was a private 
email; and I forgot my rule to always carefully check the "To" address 
before hitting "Send".
Larry Haugh
Shelburne, VT