Cormorant

Thank you, I'm still new to this I am an avid outdoorsman n photographer, I'm also a licensed trapper so I interact with wildlife alot.

Likely a Cormorant but without being able to see the head and bill it is not possible to give a species with certainty but Double-crested Cormorant is the only one listed for that area in my book so if you know it's a Cormorant go for it. The scientific name is Phalacrocorax auritus, which are the only words which should go in the scientific name field as that is the one we use to tie all spottings together. If you put family names there it could swamp the search with thousands of species! For this one, rather than put Phalacrocoracidae you could have put Phalacrocorax sp. which at least narrows it down to Genus. You can check our FAQs http://www.projectnoah.org/faq for info on how to complete a spotting page. Right now I will check your other birds for IDs.