I guess it's the nature of we birder's to want to turn a poorly seen and/or seemingly out of the ordinary bird into a rarity. But while John Haas' self-described poor quality photos ARE distant, blurry, and overly contrasty, they are not so bad as to rule out the most probable identification— Great Cormorant—which he himself thought the most likely ID. The photos of immature Great Cormorants on this site: http://tinyurl.com/a3676jx show first-year birds with just as much white on the face, neck and underparts as the bird in Rye. --
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