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cpwm17

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10. Black Rails are really difficult to see.

Reply to n2doc (Original post)

Thu Aug 14, 2014, 07:05 PM

Aug 2014

There was a spot on the edge of a marsh on San Francisco Bay where on days with the highest tides in the winter you could stand and wait to get a brief glimpse of one or two as they fled the flooding marsh. Birders would crowd around one spot to get their glimpse. I saw them there a couple of times.

They're much easier to hear than see when they call at night.

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Squee Alert- Tiny Black Rail chick [View all] n2doc Aug 2014 OP

Here is what the adult looks like: Brigid Aug 2014 #1

It's beautiful. In_The_Wind Aug 2014 #3

Thank you. Beautiful bird. oldandhappy Aug 2014 #9

*Cutegasm* arcane1 Aug 2014 #2

Scrappy little bird. I like that steely determination in it's eye. WCLinolVir Aug 2014 #4

Be still my heart! joeybee12 Aug 2014 #5

Wow! Thanks for your post, n2doc.nt littlemissmartypants Aug 2014 #6

Sqeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. love_katz Aug 2014 #7

Squeeeeeeeee! shenmue Aug 2014 #8

Black Rails are really difficult to see. cpwm17 Aug 2014 #10