I stopped by the pig farm on Division Road in Westport looking for Black Vulture. I found one, but there was a large sitting raptor in one of the bare trees in the back. With bins it looked black, but in the scope it was brown....and large. It was back to and a branch was hiding its neck and top of back. Facing away I could only see the brown face and bill, which was smaller than expected for a bird this large, as it appeared hunched over. The back was brown mottled with lighter brown. The tail was charcoal black tipped with a thin white line above which got larger when the bird bent over more. I could not get a better look as the bird was low enough to be hidden by the buildings/trees the farther north I walked along Division. I could only see the trees from the south end which has the access to the field.
Finaly the bird moved; the white area covered the rump with a blackish tail band. The bird was dropping down lower and disappeared behind the before mentioned buildings and trees giving only a few seconds of view. So I never saw the under parts nor under wings.
I believe this can only be an immature Golden Eagle.
Prior to this I walked Ocean View Farm in Dartmouth. In the field at the end of the access path to the left has several cattle and there was one Western Cattle Egret.
Glenn
Glenn d'Entremont: <gdentremont1...> Stoughton, MA
