Incredible U.P. weekend

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Steve Santner and I had a fantastic weekend of birding in the U.P. In  
addition to seeing the Vermilion flycatcher and the Green-tailed towhee, we had  the 
extraordinarily good fortune to find out about the Ancient  murrelet just as 
we started heading south from Seney heading for home. We  reversed course and 
raced straight for the Tahquamenon River mouth, where we got  breathtaking 
looks at this beautiful and very obliging bird. I posted a photo of  this bird on 
the birders at umich photo sharing site:
 
_http://www.umich.edu/~bbowman/birds/se_mich/photos.html_ 
(http://www.umich.edu/~bbowman/birds/se_mich/photos.html)  
 
>From the sublime to the less unusual U.P. birds, we also had the  following:
 
Ruddy duck: 1 on 10/28 in Marquette just north of where 28/41 turns  west
Pine grosbeaks: 5 on 10/29 in Marquette County near the town of  Mangum
Northern shrike: 1 on 10/29 in Marquette County on Greenmead Road just east  
of 41
Merlin: 1 on 10/29 in Alger County on 28 just west of H13 and 1 on 10/29 in  
Schoolcraft County along 454 just north of 28
Snow buntings: all over
 
Darlene Friedman
Novi
 
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