[SBB] Sora or Virginia Rail?

[Gordon Barrett <[[email protected]]>]

I'm sorry to post this record of my failure to identify the rail I 
saw today at the Campell Perk ponds.  I was without optics and 
looking down from the highway 17 pedestrian over-crossing into the 
northern shallow end of the pond most near the beginning of the 
over-crossing.  The Sora/Virginia Rail was walking between small 
clearings and foraging.  I clearly saw the colorings both birds 
share, gray sides and brown on top, but did not see either a red bill 
or a yellow bill.  I saw a gray bill and I saw white horizontal 
stripes at the rear flanks.  The bill was think at the base but I did 
not clearly see how long it was.  I just saw what seemed to be a 
medium size rail while actually looking for the Green Heron.  I post 
this so others may locate the bird if they choose.

The other birds I saw:
Pied-billed Grebe
Double-Crested Cormorant
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Green Heron
Black Crowned Night Heron
Canada Goose
Mallard
Lesser Scaup 10-12 pairs
Bufflehead  6-8 pairs (both species staying close to mates now)
Ruddy Duck 7
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel  chasing off Red-tail
American Coot
Rock Pigeon
Anna's Hummingbird
Belted Kingfisher
Black Phoebe
American Crow
Bushtit
Bewick's Wren
Northern Mockingbird
Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Golden-crowned Sparrow
Red-Winged Blackbird
Brewer's Blackbird

Gordon
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Gordon Barrett
[[email protected]]

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