Re: Harford County with Anhinga

Phil Davis (pdavis@ix.netcom.com)
Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:12:36 -0400


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)



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