Back after twelve days in Texas.  So, tell me if I'm nuts here, but I just took out the recycling and heard what sounded exactly like Kek calls of a Clapper Rail.  It sounded like it was coming from down the street in my dense residential neighborhood.  Possibly it was in migration overhead, but it didn't sound like it was moving.  Has anyone ever had Clapper show up in a suburban neighborhood during migration?
If so, it was a cool yard and county bird.
Ross GeredienEdgewater, MD