[at-l] Back from Boston

[thornel at attglobal.net (W F Thorneloe)]

What I saw clearly had a straight pointed beak. It looked black as oil.

Who knows what it was? I'm just glad to have the opportunity to sit by old 
shore cannons, looking over the harbor with my daughter. Did I mention that 
our ears still rang from the BOOM! of the cannons as the Constitution 
raised her colors.

OrangeBug

At 08:59 PM 8/2/2004 -0400, Jim Bullard wrote:
>"Loons are similar on the water, but lack hooked bills", so it *may* have 
>been a cormorant that OB saw. They are both diving birds. The difference 
>is that the cormorant has a hooked bill (difficult to see from a distance) 
>and all black feathers while the common loon has white spots on its back 
>and white on its neck.