[texbirds] Re: Subject: Re: Yellow Rail? Panhandle
- From: Clay Taylor <Clay.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "phockey@xxxxxxxx" <phockey@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2014 22:04:13 -0400
All -
Back in the 1980s, there was a Sharp-tailed Sparrow at Brigantine NWR in NJ
that was partially albino and had white secondaries. It frequented one of
the corners on the Wildlife Drive and frequently would fly from the roadside
vegetation, over the tidal channel, and dive into the grasses on the far side.
It is impossible to know how many birders ticked that bird off as their Lifer
Yellow Rail, but it is likely hundreds of people did.
Clay Taylor
Calallen (Corpus Christi) TX
Clay.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> On Sep 6, 2014, at 6:24 PM, "Petra Hockey" <phockey@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> TexBirders, Cameron,
> white wing patches are THE best way to identify Yellow Rails flushing away
> from a rice combine. Even if you see nothing else about the bird you can
> almost always see those patches and on a small rail-shaped bird they are
> diagnostic.
> I have Yellow Rails coming into the rice fields of the Central Texas Coast by
> the middle of September sparingly, in better numbers by the end of the
> months.
>
> Petra Hockey
> Port O'Connor, Calhoun Co.
>
>
>> Subject: Re: Yellow Rail? Panhandle
>> Date: Sat Sep 6 2014 16:37 pm
>> From: brushfreeman AT gmail.com
>> white wing patches are in fact what one remembers almost solely...Now that
>>
>> is not to rule out a white-wing patched bird say from Uma Guma, Tobago or
>>
>> something but ain't nothing else regular in the US gots 'em...Don't recall
>>
>> seeing them in Sept. (Petra..?) but sure had enough of them in early
>>
>> October...Not sure we ever did combine trips this early in Sept. w/o
>>
>> digging way back into notes......IE on a second cut. Those wing patches
>>
>> bright or dull are pretty much diagnostic.
>>
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>>
>> Brush Freeman
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