Date: 3/23/26 12:16 pm From: 'Marcia Watson' via Maryland & DC Birding <mdbirding...> Subject: Re: [MDBirding] Previous Maryland sighting of Yellow-Billed Loon
Scott,
Re: “appropriate to reconsider an earlier sighting.” Right now, there is no one to “consider” it, as the Records Committee is on hiatus pending development of a new process for reviewing records.
Marcia
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Marcia Watson
Phoenix, MD
From: Maryland & DC Birding <mdbirding...> on behalf of Scott Young <wsyacy...>
Date: Monday, March 23, 2026 at 1:04 PM
To: Maryland & DC Birding <mdbirding...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Previous Maryland sighting of Yellow-Billed Loon
Now that we have photographic proof of a Yellow-Billed Loon visiting Maryland, perhaps it would be appropriate to reconsider an earlier sighting in November, 1999. It was spotted by three birders with experience with that loon from the west. They had no photographs so that’s why they think their sighting was not accepted by the records committee. What’s fascinating to me is the that 1999 sighting at Sandgates in St. Mary’s County along the Patuxent River is quite close to the present day sighting along that river! Thoughts?
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