In a message dated 11/23/2007 7:40:13 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
 writes:

While
certainly disappointing for birders, I am relieved that the  bird will not
be starving on a pond too narrow for  take-off)


Having seen the Lily Pons Red-throated Loon on Wednesday afternoon, we  were 
glad to read in the Smithsonian's Handbook to Birds of North  American 
(eastern region) just this evening that this is the only loon  known to take off 
vertically from water or land.
 
Leslie Starr & Joe Turner
Baltimore & Port Republic
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