I'm posting this for Chris Swarth, Director of the Sanctuary: 

On April 14 I observed an American Bittern in a cattail stand at Jug   
Bay Wetlands Sanctuary, Anne Arundel County. I had a brief, but   
excellent, look as it flushed from the edge of the RR Bed and flew low   
into a nearby cattail stand. Clearly saw the plumage characteristics:   
brown wings with broad darker gray/brown flight feathers. Overall   
plumage was all brown in general and the bird was about the size of a   
snowy egret though heavier. Trailing legs of moderate length. Not an   
immature night-heron. 


Jug Bay Wetlands Sanctuary 
1361 Wrighton Rd. 
Lothian, MD 20711 
410-741-9330 
 


Sue Ricciardi 
Arnold, MD 


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