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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jim M." data-source="post: 1516106" data-attributes="member: 60675">Fully agree. I think people are overestimating their abilities to identify birds from distant, blurry photographs.And as for the supposed propensities of Fulmar to wander, apparently no one has told the Fulmar about this. More pelagic trips are made to the Gulf Stream off the coast of North Carolina-- which is approximately the latitude and location where this photo was taken -- than anywhere else on the Atlantic seaboard. Most of these are run by Brian Patteson.  Looking at his trip reports for the past 15 years, the number of Northern Fulmar he has seen in June are exactly Zero.  (<a href="http://www.patteson.com/" target="_blank">http://www.patteson.com/</a>).  Similarly, a book written by a pelagic birder, Guide to the Offshore Wildlife of the Northern Atlantic by Michael Tove, provides frequency charts for pelagic birds for pelagic trips from areas up and down the Atlantic coast. For Hatteras, North Carolina, Northern Fulmar are indicated as being completely absent for June, July, and August.Northern Fulmar certainly winter in these southern waters, and I have seen them off Delaware myself in February. But it is well documented that they spend summer elsewhere.Best,Jim</blockquote>