[obol] Black Rail RBA (BABY RAIL?)

[Pat Waldron]

Dear Bob,

    Thank you for NOT giving out the location of the BLACK RAIL on OBOL. 
You have probably saved many a RAIL lifes’, as NAMC now says you can’t 
count a RAIL by hearing, you gott’a see it.

    We will now have wetlands destroyed by egoNAMCs, young and old, who 
will slog through sensitive wetlands until they get their RAIL ... for 
their list. It is a legal excuse for access, and destruction.

    Can we get this rule changed? Before the September 2007 NAMC? Will 
birders ever start thinking about what is best for the birds instead of 
the SIZE of their list? What is REALLY important here?

    Pat Waldron
    East of Scio
   

Bob ARCHER wrote:

>Hi:
>
>I was at another location in Oregon and flushed a very small black colored 
>rail.  This one actually flew.  I was with family and did not have any 
>method with which to call or locate the bird again. This was late June of 
>2006.  This sent me on a hunt to find what first year rails look like.  I 
>have not found much in the normal text.  But what I have found is that most 
>rails are black in their first year. I need to find out if first year rails 
>that are still in their balck plumage can fly.  I would have to assume that 
>any black rail seen in Oregon would have to be a first year hatchling of a 
>more common rail.  I would give up the location where I saw my black colored 
>rail actually flying, but it is on Nature Conservancy property and I do not 
>know if they want that disclosed.  Suffice to say it was southern Oregon and 
>is a very sensitive wetland.
>
>Bob Archer
>Portland
>
>  
>
>>From: "mike denny" <m.denny at charter.net>
>>To: "Obol" <obol at lists.orst.edu>
>>CC: John Gatchet <john.gatchet at oc.npuc.org>, Harry Nehls 
>><hnehls at teleport.com>
>>Subject: [obol] Xantus's Murrelets, Elegant Terns & Black Rail RBA
>>Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:51:40 -0800
>>
>>Hello All,
>>
>>We just walked through the door from an outstanding pelagic trip with the
>>Bird Guide and many friends. We saw a LIFER on the pelagic trip and that 
>>was
>>four Xantus's Murrelets off Newport! Wow to see and hear them call was so
>>interesting and exciting. That was on the 25th.
>>
>> On the 26th off Yaquina Light we observed three Elegant Terns flying 
>>south
>>right in front of us at about 10:15 AM.
>>
>> Then today at 12:10 PM while slowly driving towards the Bay Ocean Spit
>>parking lot just as high tide arrived we had a small black bird pop up on
>>the inner bay side of the road and run across in front of us. It looked 
>>like
>>a stunted black dipper, but ran like a rail. It showed very black legs,
>>sharp pointed thin black beak, very short up tilted dark tail and as it
>>reached the west edge of the road it fluttered up the steep slope on short
>>rounded black wings and on across the upper road and into the brush along
>>the shoreline of Lake Meares. This all happened so quickly and 
>>unexpectantly
>>that the camera sat in its protective cover unused. I marked the site where
>>the bird fist appeared at the EAST or RIGHT edge of the road with a pile of
>>rocks and then propped up a rock that is shaped like an "L" or a boot. It
>>might be worth being there tomorrow just as high tide arrives.We greatly
>>enjoy these outstanding Oregon Birds! Will do write-up for OBRC.
>>Later Mike and MerryLynn
>>
>>********************************************************************
>>Mike & MerryLynn Denny
>>1354 S. E. Central Ave.
>>College Place, WA  99324
>>509.529.0080 (h)
>>
>>IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN BIRDING, YOU HAVEN'T LIVED!
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