This is remarkable footage documenting an Ancient Murrelet in Shelburne, VT from earlier this spring.
Wow! Sincerely, Chris T-H Begin forwarded message: From: Steve Mirick <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Subject: [VTBIRD] ANCIENT MURRELET in Shelburne Vermont! (April report) Date: June 22, 2014 5:38:48 PM EDT To: <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Reply-To: Vermont Birds <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Brandon Frank and Emily Hall were out fishing on Shelburne Pond on April 17, 2014 when an "odd duck" swam by them along the shoreline. Thankfully, they had enough curiosity to take a video of it with their cell phone. After a couple of months, the video has finally surfaced and it turns out the "duck" is a breeding plumage ANCIENT MURRELET! Thanks to Len Medlock for sending the video along to me. https://www.flickr.com/photos/40298884@N06/14296435258/ And thanks to Rob Muessel and Brandon Frank for allowing me to share this remarkable video with other birders in the region. Just goes to show.....you just never know! Steve Mirick Bradford, MA -- Christopher T. Tessaglia-Hymes Field Applications Engineer Bioacoustics Research Program, Cornell Lab of Ornithology 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, New York 14850 W: 607-254-2418<tel:607-254-2418> M: 607-351-5740<tel:607-351-5740> F: 607-254-1132<tel:607-254-1132> http://www.birds.cornell.edu/brp -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
