On October 1 and 2 (last Thursday and Wednesday), I saw the rail at a small muddy (marshy?) spot inside the Enid Haupt Garden. Specifically, I saw it where the fence along Independence Ave. joins the A&I Museum (the brick building east of the Castle). For the first time in over a month, it was quite comfortable out in the open and didn't scurry into cover when I stopped to look at it. It seemed to have molted into its basic plumage, and was looking quite sharp! I looked for it today, but did not see it Jim Jim Felley Smithsonian Institution irmss668@sivm.si.edu