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| Reply To: | [log in to unmask][log in to unmask], 7 Aug 2012 03:14:53 +0000679_iso-8859-1 Greetings - Upon much further inspection of photos and references and word from fellow birders, it turns out that the "very possible" juvenile Neotropical Cormorant in Cuyahoga is indeed a hatch-year juvenile Double-crested Cormorant. This individual JUST fledged. The reason this bird was astoundingly tricky for all is that most Double-cresteds come out of the nest with orange lores and pale heads/necks/upper breasts (like we see on the thousands of birds along the lake), but this individual retained exceedingly-dark Neotropical-like plumage. While the lores of this bird are dark, they are not feathered, rather being flesh and very dark brownish-gray, [...]46_7Aug201203:14: [log in to unmask] |
| Date: | Sun, 5 Aug 2012 13:51:33 -0400 |
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There were 5 Willets on the beach at Caesar Creek State Park this morning.
At Mound Rd there were 3 juvenile Little Blue Herons. All three had greenish-yellow legs, bicolored bill, a few gray feather tips visible. Also,
Solitary Sandpiper 21
Pectoral Sandpiper 8
Least Sandpiper 1
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Killdeer.
Shane Egleston found 2 Little Blue Herons at Crain’s Run where Paul Dubuc found 1 yesterday.
Rick Asamoto
Miamisburg
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