I'm pretty sure I saw this large black bird with white breast at approx. 7:30 this morning flying over the Anacostia? near River Terrace Park from the Orange Line Metro just before ( heading South)  it goes underground at Stadium- Armory.
 
I had studied pictures after reading previous posts on the off-chance I'd see one, and I got a good look at this fellow for several seconds.
 
Dorothy Paugh
 
Bowie MD
 
> Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2010 19:10:33 -0700
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> Subject: Re: [MDOSPREY] Frigate sp. possibly resighted near Pentagon marina
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> 
> Thanks go to Rob Hilton for posting the message about the possible
> re-sighting of the frigatebird reported this morning. As I was riding
> the yellow line over the Potomac, I looked around on the very unlikely
> chance that I might see it. Nothing down river, and just as we were
> starting to go underground I looked up river and saw a bird that looked
> an awful lot like a frigate. Big and dark with long, pointed & bent
> wings, slowly circling. However, the view was so brief, that I can't
> completely rule out an Osprey. I was seeing the bird at an oblique
> angle, not a pure silhouette, which could make the relatively rounded
> wings of an Osprey look pointed. I would say that I'm 90% sure it was a
> frigate - not enough to call it certain (aside, having just spent a week
> on the Galapagos studying Magnificents & Greats, I have a fresh image of
> soaring frigates in my mind).
> 
> 
> 
> In any case, I immediately drove to the Columbia Island marina (I called
> it the Pentagon marina when I spoke with Rob), getting there at about
> 5:00pm. I looked around the marina and the river, but didn't see
> anything out of the ordinary (except a Laughing Gull on the barge in the
> middle of the lagoon). So then I drove to Roaches Run. No frigate
> there either, but a very nice, big patch of hydrilla with c.15 Wood
> Ducks (could be good for shorebirds). From there I went to Gravelly
> Point, which provided a nice view up and down the Potomac. Alas, no
> frigates there either (just a Great Egret flying south over the Hains
> Pt. Golf Course). A little before 6pm I got back in the car and drove
> up the GW Parkway as far as Spout Run. This gave me a shot of the lower
> end of Theodore Roosevelt Island, which attracts waterbirds at low tide.
> Nothing there either.
> 
> 
> I'm reminded of the frigatebird that spent a few days hanging around the
> Chincoteague marina many years ago. Perhaps it could happen here (DC
> birding requires a huge dose of optimism).
> 
> 
> I hope to try again tomorrow morning.
> 
> 
> Good birding,
> Paul Pisano
> Arlington, VA