[texbirds] Re: RFI: Black Rail
- From: Clay Taylor <Clay.Taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "doefamily@xxxxxxx" <doefamily@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2013 22:26:53 -0500
Huh, 99.999% of all Black Rail sightings are brief and inadequate. You are in
good company.
Seriously, there are well-heard and occasionally seen Black Rails at the Port
Aransas Birding Center in late winter / early spring, but it takes frequent
visits until you get lucky.
We heard a Black Rail calling in the wet marshy area of Hazel Bazemore Park,
Corpus Christi, in mid-April of 2011, obit not in 2012 (although I did not
visit it much in that period). One of the keys seemed to be a bright moon in
the middle of the night. No moonlight, no kee-kee-doo.
I guess that the only real "best shot" is to follow them to their breeding
grounds, and even then they can be confounding.
Clay Taylor
Calallen (Corpus Christi) TX
Clay.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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On Mar 3, 2013, at 9:26 AM, "doefamily@xxxxxxx" <doefamily@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would like info on where and how to find Black Rail along the Texas Coast.
> My only previous observations ( just outside Pt Mugu Naval Air Station, and
> Upper Newport Bay, both in California) were brief and inadequate.
>
> I would accept hearing diagnostic calls, but I really want to see one.
>
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