ML408864041
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Observation details
**rare; successful score for my day’s target, but it was a last minute save that was kind of amazing. I was scanning from the causeway and feeling like I should leave, but also thinking that the concentration of grebes, ducks, and gulls near the breakers along the beach might bode well for pushing a floating murre in. I scanned for 15 minutes and then was focused on an interesting grebe when a Thick-billed Murre swam through my field of view right next to the grebe. Clear Thick-billed with dusky face, thick short bill, blocky head, blackish plumage including head and neck, and white breast with sharp protrusion of white extending up in to throat; I could not make out the white tomium for sure but did not need to given the excellent look at other field marks. I tried video which failed and then managed a couple poor digiscopes. After a minute or so I scanned off it to check where the grebe was and then quickly scanned back to get on it again and I never relocated it. This was gratifying since the pattern of nearshore records recently suggested that I might confirm the first for Gooseberry (species 289; but no increase for me since I already had murre sp.); recent records in past few days included one from South Cape Beach, one from Rhode Island yesterday, several from the south side of Long Island, one at Ocean City, MD, and lots in Cape Cod Bay including sites that do not usually get alcids, such as Wollaston Beach and Cohasset.
Technical information
- Model
- iPhone 8
- Lens
- iPhone 8 back camera 3.99mm f/1.8
- ISO
- 20
- Focal length
- 4 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/1.8
- Shutter speed
- 1/419 sec
- Dimensions
- 4032 pixels x 3024 pixels
- Original file size
- 1.13 MB