All I was asking was for more information about the sighting. S
Kevin,

All I was asking was for more information about the sighting. Since this is a rare sighting, I was just interested in the details surrounding it since your original and follow-up postings were lacking in these. When something like this comes up, like a lot of other people on the list, am curious about the details of the observation. I wasn't asking you to defend the report. 
 Edward Boyd
Westminster, MD 




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From: Kevin Graff <>
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Sent: Monday, May 25, 2009 11:09:09 PM
Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] SE Harford County & yard, 05/22/09

Ed and all,



  Please remember with lack of education in school cause me to get poor writing with details.  Back in late 1980's to early 1990's, I sent 5 uncommon species record to Delaware Record Committee and was rejected on all 5 due to poor details (as of now they didn't have mine on their list).  So that why I'm not sending in any detail to MD Record Committee for fear being rejected for poor details.  I have been poorly educating by teachers from 1st grade to college and was kicked out of high school and college for poor grade and was the teachers fault.  

  John Dennehy and I had a good view of two large black birds soaring few hundred yards above tree line in partly cloudy sky with some sun.  it was a long slimmer bird with small head, slim snake-like neck, long thin pointed bill, long almost-pointed wing, long fan-shape tail, did two quick flap during their 9 minutes soaring to reach their thermal. Don't know how high was it when both disappear but can see them headed N.  

When we first saw these 2, we thought the behavior we saw was very UNLIKE cormorants. With that, the fan shaped tail, thin neck, and pointed bill. 
Both were adults. Can see dark head on 1st bird and brown or tan head on other. 

    Kevin