Anyone still looking for Yellow Rails might consider a drive to Norman County. Peder Svingen and I recently found fifty-one Yellow Rails in a one-mile stretch of Norman County Road 39 at the the Neal State WMA beginning two miles west of state highway 32. We only counted birds heard along the road, but if someone is seriously interested in establishing a record high count for this species, searching and listening the entire length and breadth of the WMA might produce a couple of hundred.
-- Anthony Hertzel -- [email protected]
