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Re: Purple Gallinule etc. today

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Jim Moore

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Jim Moore

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Tue, 3 May 2011 20:50:38 -0400

Third try was a charm for me!  Seen and heard at 7:50pm this evening at 
the same location--end of the small (c. 15 ft)  trail to the right of 
the parking lot leading to the first large impoundment on the right.  
Thanks Dave!

Jim Moore
Rockville, MD

On 5/3/2011 11:34 AM,  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After an unsuccessful chase yesterday evening, Barry and I arived to find a
> good contingent of Maryland's birders at Hughes Hollow and were
> informed (much to our delight) that the aforementioned Gallinule had
> JUST been seen, close to the road in and at the bottom of a small dirt
> path down to the impoundment. We walked down and almost
> immediately the bird flew, long legs dangling, into some spatterdock
> down amongst taller cattails. We had fair looks as the bird moved about,
> preened and called a couple of times, and we then relinquished our spots
> to newly-arriving twitchers.
>
> We stood talking a bit to friends, when Evelyn Ralston called us that the
> bird was now sitting up in plain view. And so it was, perched like some
> large, awkward purple blackbird on the tips of a cattail stalk, flapping,
> preening and pecking at the cattail tufts! Evelyn got some amazing photos
> which I hope she will share with all of us. This crippling view was the
> icing
> on the cake of a new state bird for both of us. We missed the one here in
> (I think) 2004 as we were out of the country.
>
>
>

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