Hi Marylanders,

I'm hoping some of you can help us establish the Neotropic Cormorant 
record in Virginia.  I know a few of you saw it fly into Virginia and I 
would appreciate any details about that you are willing to share with 
me.  A couple Virginians have written an extensive report of watching 
the bird sit on the log in the river for hours and then finally seeing 
it fly into the golf course in Virginia.  The date of that sighting was 
Saturday, October 29, 2005.  Does anyone have photographs of the bird 
taken that specific day?  I don't think we can use photographs taken a 
different day but if someone took photos anytime between 10:00am and 
3:30pm that day, then that coincides with when our observers were there 
and we might be able to use them.  Thanks for your time.

And just to make this have something about Maryland birds - I was at the 
Jean Ellen duPont Shehan Audubon Sanctuary in Dorchester County last 
Saturday for an amphibian class and we spooked a Great Horned Owl from a 
pine forest.  It was carrying a mammal that was probably a squirrel.  
Also seen were many turkeys, eastern meadowlarks, singing Pine Warblers.

Sue

-- 
Susan A. Heath
George Mason University
Environmental Science Department
Fairfax, VA

Secretary, Virginia Avian Records Committee
Keeper, Virginia Comp List at www.virginiabirding.org