Date: 11/27/12 5:38 am
From: jflowers <artsnimages...>
Subject: [MDBirding] Re: Yellow Rail - Assateague Island


On Sunday, November 25, 2012 4:43:25 PM UTC-5, Mary Ann Todd wrote:
> On Saturday, Nov. 25th, Dave and I flushed a yellow rail while walking the marsh to look for the Western Grebe from the Assaateague Island side of the bay. The bird flew from the marsh to a goldenrod patch on the sand. It scurried from brush patch to brush patch and then flew very low over the sand back into the tall marsh grasses.
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> Photos at:
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> http://www.flickr.com/photos/39566052@N06/sets/72157632100372668/
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> Mary Ann Todd
> Dave Czaplak
> Germantown, MD

What a wonderful find! I have spent years looking for this species on the Texas Marsh at the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge only to catch a glimpse or two but hardly a photograph. And then you had the bird in the open as well for a short time. I have heard them in the Maryland marsh on more than a few occasions but never got a look. Like the Black Rail, they have eluded me!

Awesome post!

Jim

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