MD Osprey:

Paul O'Brien and I are going to try our annual "Yellow Rail Chase a 
Day After They Were Reported" ... hopefully we will be more 
successful than last year. We probably will not get down to Rumbly 
Point Road much before 11 pm or so tonight.

If anyone else is going to try for them, let's do this ...


1.  If you have an FRS radio, use channel 11-22,so we can coordinate 
when we are in the area.

2. Exchange cell phone numbers. My is 240-460-5159. I will probably 
make my last check of email around 7:30 pm or so to see who else may 
be out and to get your cell number. You can call my anytime during 
the night (I AM an "night owl" !)

3. If anyone wants to check other marshes, such as Elliott Island 
Road, please do so, and pass on the results, we will do likewise if 
we have success at Rumbly Point.

Good luck!

Phil




At 05:39 04/25/2009, jo leachman wrote:
>This post is on behalf of a group of birders, not including myself, 
>who actually stayed up all last night in a marsh in Somerset County:
>
>Beginning last night around 11:30 p.m. until 4 a.m. this morning 
>(4/25/09), 3 YELLOW RAILS were intermittently heard 1/2 way down 
>Rumbly Point Rd. in Somerset County.
>Observers included: Hans Holbrook, Mikey Lutmerding, Bill Hubick, 
>Tom Feild, Jim Brighton, Jim Stasz, Ron Gutberlet, Mike Walsh, Stan 
>Arnold, Jonn Hubbell, and Matt Haffner - hopefully I am not missing anyone!
>
>-Jo Anna Leachman Lutmerding
>Upper Marlboro, MD
>(just getting out of bed :))
>
>

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