Don,
   Your bird sounds like a first-summer immature, not a juvenile. Though not
common one or two usually remain here through the summer. Check the Yellow
Book.

On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 5:31 PM, Donald Sweig <> wrote:

> RE-POSTED FROM VA-BIRD:
>
>
> *Subject: Possible Common Loon above Great Falls on Potomac*
> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 17:25:37 -0400
>
> A friend and I walked up-river from Great Falls NP to Riverbend park and
> back about 9:30 this morning. About half-way back we noticed a very
> different bird in the river, in the channel above the dam, between the
> Virginia shore and Conn Island.  It appeared to be a juvenile  plumage
> Common Loon. We both had extended 8x binocular looks at the bird  several
> times from about 75- yards away.  The bird was actively preening.  It would
> be way out-of-season and out-of-range, but it did appear to be a Common
> Loon.  If anyone else finds or sees this bird, please post your observation
> to Va-bird.  ( Or MdOsprey)
>
> -
> Donald Sweig
> Falls Church, Va.
>
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