[Ontbirds] Carden Yellow Rail.

2016-05-03 Thread kevin empey
Hi everyone. Reading about the nice crowd and display last night, I wondered what was wrong tonight. No one here. Overcast and wind maybe. But I was still fortunate. One yellow rail called quietly in very short bursts from 558 to 615. It was Just past the bridge on west side. - where the r

[Ontbirds] Carden Yellow Rail update May 2

2016-05-03 Thread Margaret Bain
I guess we were all expecting someone else to post to Ontbirds, but yesterday evening, Monday May 2, a group of 7 or 8 birders was delighted by a loud, prolonged serenade from a Yellow Rail so close to the sedge-marsh road at Carden that you felt it was impossible not to be able to see it (but t