[texbirds] Re: Subject: Re: Yellow Rail? Panhandle
- From: Jim Sinclair <jim.sinclair@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: phockey@xxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2014 10:19:30 -0500
Some of you may have been fortunate enough to have known Bob Jennings,
long-time director of the Oxley Nature Center in Mohawk Park, Tulsa.
Bob was a superb and meticulous birder, one of the early people to have
gone over 600 species. His own personal criteria for accepting a lifer
sighting was that he had to see every field mark or he did not count it.
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Petra Hockey <phockey@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Wishful thinking is a potent inducement when it comes to bird
> identification and I am sure just about all of us (me included) have fallen
> victim to it. You would have to tune out the 3 times bigger body mass of a
> Yellow Rail and the half again as big size to make a Sharp-tailed Sparrow
> into a Yellow Rail ⦠but I am sure it can be done.
> Petra Hockey
> Port O'Connor, Calhoun Co.
>
>
> > Subject: Re: Subject: Re: Yellow Rail? Panhandle
> > Date: Sat Sep 6 2014 21:05 pm
> > From: Clay.Taylor AT swarovskioptik.us
> > 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
> > - See more at:
> http://birding.aba.org/message.php?mesidv3408&MLID=TX&MLNM=Texas#sthash.H0ZfugEi.dpuf
>
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