Sunday, 16 December 2012

[Maine-birds] razorbill in portland

Just sighted a lone razorbill (my 1st!) off the ferry pier in Portland.  I was doing my annual Santa Stand Up Paddle trip with a bunch of other paddlers, and someone said, "hey Raf, whats that bird?"  It was only about 20 feet away, clear line between white and black, and had a broad, blunt black bill.  It dove after about 5 seconds and came up a couple hundred feet away.  It would have been easily sighted from the end of the pier.

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