I joined Joel Martin at Fort McHenry about 1PM and stayed to about 1:45 watching the White Pelican perched and swimming in the area near the Fairfield Auto Terminal. Another shipload of cars was arriving and obscured the posts for a few minutes but the pelican remained there. The distance is about a mile from Whetstone Point at Fort McHenry and you can see the bird with binoculars but a telescope is needed to identify it. As I was leaving the parking lot Hank Kaestner arrived.

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Bob Ringler 
Eldersburg MD 


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From: D Terry <> 

> This morning at 7 a.m. Jim Peters, looking across the Patapsco River, spotted 
> the White Pelican sitting on wooden pilings with cormorants. 
> 
> Upon arriving at the fort, I walked along the asphalt perimeter path around the 
> seawall until I came to the spot which would give me the closest look at the 
> Francis Scott Key Bridge. I panned the shoreline to the right of the bridge and 
> when I came to the first petroleum farm, a group of big round fuel containers, 
> I looked out into the water and there were the pilings occupied by the pelican 
> and cormorants. 
> 
> I saw the bird at 8:45 this morning. 
> 
> I am posting for Jim. Thanks Jim for locating this bird. 
> 
> Debbie Terry 
>  
> Timonium, MD 
>