At 3:59 PM -0500 03/18/99, BrewsPad at aol.com wrote:

>Was walking along the Green River today about 11:00 a.m. and saw a couple of
>Palegic Cormorants successfully fishing under the Meeker Street Bridge. They
>are very strong swimmers and were staying in relatively the same spot in a
>very strong current. When surfaced, they "sit" very low in the water. Though
>I didn't have binoculars to get a detail look at them, the "Birds of Seattle
>and Puget Sound" (Chris C. Fisher) picture shows them to have a whitish
>necklace and white on their backs. The major difference between these and the
>birds Lydia describes is the size. The Pelagic Cormorants are a little larger
>than a Mallard.

*Pelagic* cormorants? In the Green River???

Hal Opperman