[NatureNS] Large Flying insect: what is it?

From: Bernard Burke <bernieb1@EastLink.ca>
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Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2013 16:03:29 -0300
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 Hi all
While at work today I was outside talking to a work associate when this large flying insect came near and appeared to be trying to land on me. I backed off rather abruptly and it landed on the sidewalk. I asked the associate if he would take a picture with his camera phone. It was clearly longer than a bald-faced hornet , and I think it appears to have had a forked tail similar to an earwig. After this photo was taken, the creature folded its wings one over the other in line with its body before it eventually departed. The photo is not clear, and I enlarged it and attempted to sharpen it, but I'm hoping that my description along with the color scheme indicated in the photo will help someone help me identify it:
 
http://bernieb.smugmug.com/Nature/insectsspiders-etc/797514_PQxc2P#!i=2806020593&k=tMk2wVS&lb=1&s=L
 
Thanks in advance
 
Bernard Burke
Dartmouth

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