Thanks to Bob Ringler's call to Jim Stasz and Jim's prompt post, I whipped  
the two miles over to Violettes Lock to see the Neocorm.  It had flown up  
river ten or fifteen minutes before I got there.  
 
Ten minutes later, this cooperative bird was back on the log way out in the  
stream, sitting nicely between two DCC's for comparisons.  The Neotrop is  
substantially smaller and thiner.  I don't think there is any other NA  cormorant 
that would be a competitor for this ID.
 
It was still there sleeping at 3:37.
 
Location: Go to Violettes Lock access road off River Road, just east of the  
Bretton Woods Golf Course.  The access road is about half a mile  long.  Park 
in the parking lot.   Cross the canal and head  upstream on the towpath about 
50 yards.  A path to the river takes you to a  place where someone had a 
campfire.  Here it is almost straight out to the  cormorant log which is parallel 
to the flow of the river.  It is probably  2/3 of the way to Virginia, so a 
long way out.  The cormies for whatever  reason have picked this one log of many 
to be their preening location.
 
 
Bob Mumford
Darnestown