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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 2273461, member: 7631"] One way in which I have some hope for humanity is the comeback of raptors. I grew up on a salt marsh in CT in the 60's-70's, and my parents and sibs talked about how cool ospreys were. But they said I'd never see one. I read an article in Smithsonian around 1980 about bald eagles, which the author had to go to Alaska to see. There were some dozens in the lower 48. I've seen two bald eagles in the past few weeks (in NH and ME), and even saw one less than a mile from my house in MD, a scant 20 miles from the US Capitol, this spring. I often see red-tailed hawks, probably a few a week, including occasionally in my yard. There's some kind of smaller hawk, maybe a little bigger than a crow, that we see often around the house, including on a walk this evening. I almost always see ospreys when I'm near the ocean, the sound, or the bay. And nevermind the buzzards. [/QUOTE]