Matt - Congratulations on the great sighting ... A guideline for documenting rare bird sightings can be found on the MOS MD/DCRC web site at: http://www.MDBirds.org/mddcrc/rcguide.html Sketches are always useful. My address is: Phil Davis 2549 Vale Court Davidsonville, MD 21035 Thanks. Phil At 04:43 PM 04/18/1999 -0400, Matt Hafner wrote: >I just got back from a day of birding Harford County with Jim Stasz and Kevin >Fehskens. (SNIP) >Because we had been seeing a fair number of hawks flyover, we decided it >would not be a bad idea to go to Tydings Marina and watch hawks from there. >We arrived to see a Kestrel and a few Broad-wings go over. Then I spotted a >cormorant-like bird with a long tail a good ways up in the air. Jim got the >scope on the bird and confirmed it as an Anhinga, I then got my scope on it >and we watched for a about 6-7 minutes. It was in an almost steady soar >making very few brief flaps. It turned circles above the island and gained >altitude. We later saw many Double-crested Cormorants flyover and this was a >clearly different bird. The tail was fanned and longer, the wings did not >have a distinct knuckle, and the bill came to a point. We checked the yellow >book to see Harford County has never had a report of Anhinga. I will be >sending a report in to the records committee and I'm sure Jim and Kevin will >too. (SNIP) ================================================ Phil Davis, Secretary MD/DC Records Committee home: PDavis@ix.netcom.com Davidsonville, Maryland USA work: PDavis@OAO.com Greenbelt, Maryland USA MD/DCRC Web site: http://www.MDBirds.org ================================================