Outside last night hoping to hear Chimney Swifts (saw but they were
flying silently) I saw movement high in a riverside snag, a great
place to see flickers hang about, with no interfering branches from my
garden. On this spot perched a Cormorant that looked very small to me
(perhaps because I was used to them on Perkins Pier taking up all the
oxygen!) I tried to make this bird a heron but no, it opened its wings
in time-honored fashion, and repeatedly turned its snakey neck toward
the setting sun thus flashing a yellow-orangey bill. Mosquitoes drove
me away after 20 mins, but both times I checked before dark the bird
was still there. I don't think I've heard of cormorants in this area
but I hope to be told they do appear and high in trees! Thank you.

Veer Frost, Passumpsic
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