Re: Harford County with Anhinga
Phil Davis (pdavis@ix.netcom.com)
Sun, 18 Apr 1999 22:12:36 -0400
Matt -
Congratulations on the great sighting ...
A guideline for documenting rare bird sightings can be found on the MOS
MD/DCRC web site at:
http://www.MDBirds.org/mddcrc/rcguide.html
Sketches are always useful.
My address is:
Phil Davis
2549 Vale Court
Davidsonville, MD 21035
Thanks.
Phil
At 04:43 PM 04/18/1999 -0400, Matt Hafner wrote:
>I just got back from a day of birding Harford County with Jim Stasz and Kevin
>Fehskens.
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>Because we had been seeing a fair number of hawks flyover, we decided it
>would not be a bad idea to go to Tydings Marina and watch hawks from there.
>We arrived to see a Kestrel and a few Broad-wings go over. Then I spotted a
>cormorant-like bird with a long tail a good ways up in the air. Jim got the
>scope on the bird and confirmed it as an Anhinga, I then got my scope on it
>and we watched for a about 6-7 minutes. It was in an almost steady soar
>making very few brief flaps. It turned circles above the island and gained
>altitude. We later saw many Double-crested Cormorants flyover and this was a
>clearly different bird. The tail was fanned and longer, the wings did not
>have a distinct knuckle, and the bill came to a point. We checked the yellow
>book to see Harford County has never had a report of Anhinga. I will be
>sending a report in to the records committee and I'm sure Jim and Kevin will
>too.
(SNIP)
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MD/DC Records Committee
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