Fw: [birders] Possible Anhinga Sunday over Ann Arbor

[Allen Chartier]

Birders,

Forwarding this from a local listserv

Allen Chartier
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Inkster, MI  48141
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jochen roeder" <joroeder at yahoo.com>
To: <birders at umich.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 1:40 PM
Subject: [birders] Possible Anhinga Sunday over Ann Arbor


Hello!
On Sunday I was checking a few swallows at the Arb
when I noticed a strange cormorant circling in the
background very high up (almost not visible with bare
eye).
It was peculiar in that the tail appeared long and
rounded, the wings were long and pretty big and the
neck, which was coloured whitish, was very thin and
long. I watched the bird between 1:10 and 1:13 p.m.
(time recorded on digital images, good thing!) slowly
circling higher and higher towards the NE without even
flapping its wings once , finally getting out of sight
due to some trees at the Arb.
A quick check at home on Sunday afternoon had me think
it was a Double-crested Cormorant, but after
re-checking the pictures today and some email
correspondence, it would appear that a female Anhinga
can't be ruled out.

I have posted some of my images on Grovestreet - very
heavily cropped due to the vast distance of many
hundred yards -

 http://www.umich.edu/~bbowman/birds/se_mich/photos.html

- and will also post some on my blog

http://belltowerbirding.blogspot.com

this afternoon.

I'd be more than happy to receive the opinion of other
birders on the bird's identity!!

The bird was obviously on migration and will almost
certainly not be in the Ann Arbor area anymore but
could be anywhere between Saginaw Bay and Cleveland.

So there might be something to go out looking for in
the marshes of the Great Lakes and it is well worth
keeping and eye on the sky (by checking swallows)!

Good birding,
Jochen Roeder
joroeder at yahoo.com


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