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Subject: Re: [SBB] Black & Clapper Rails
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Some other sightings: As mentioned by others, there were rails on the
boardwalk at the Nature Center before the boardwalk and levee were 
closed
for high water. I saw 3 Clapper and 1 Virginia rail out near "Rail 
Alley". After
the excitement of the Black Rail sightings, several of us went out to 
the
boardwalk as the rangers inspected and re-opened it. There were 2 
Clapper
Rails on the boardwalk and several more calling from the marsh. When the
birds left the boardwalk to forage in the marsh, we approached slowly. 
By
doing this, we eventually were in position to have one of the rails 
climb back
on the boardwalk and approach within 20 feet of us. Frame-filling shots 
for
long lenses! One Clapper eventually jumped back into the marsh and 
started
poking at a bird carcass about 12 feet from the boardwalk. From the 
smaller
size, long bill, gray face, I could tell that it was an ex-Virginia 
Rail, a probable
victim of the high water and exposure to the elements or a predator....

Also, before we walked out on the boardwalk, a couple, sans binoculars,
were intently watching the section of levee just beyond the Nature 
Center
from the deck. They said that they had been watching a Black Rail 
working
along the near edge of the levee. We watched for a while to no avail, 
then,
we went over to the area, but found nothing. I didn't "grill" the 
observers for
more details, so I don't know how viable the sighting might have been.

Les Chibana

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