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Re: black rail seen but not by me
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Marie Schatz <[log in to unmask]>
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Marie Schatz <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 1 Jun 2008 22:23:53 -0400
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Were you guys using tapes?

On Jun 1, 2008, at 9:57 PM, Joe Faulkner wrote:

> Fellow birders,
>
>      Linda Helm, Vicki Derr and I decided to chase the Black Rail at
> Charlie's Pond today.  If hearing is any measure, we had great
> success,
> hearing the bird(s) six or seven times, from both sides of the
> road, around
> 5:00 PM.  In my opinion, there were at least two.  Several times we
> were
> within 6-8 feet of this bird, as it called to us, but yet we could
> not see
> it.  None the less, it was still a life bird for all three of us,
> and while
> not seen, it was heard so clearly and so often, there was no
> mistaking it
> for anything else.  Another birder actually did see the bird just
> before we
> arrived, but I will not steal his thunder.  Let him tell you.
>
>      Thanks to Paul Gardner for the timely post about this
> sighting.  A lot
> more people know about Charlie's Pond, and a lot of people got a
> life bird,
> thanks to the internet.  I can still remember dialing 221- WREN to
> hear Tom
> Thompson tell us where the birds were.
>
> Joe in the woods
> Somerset, Ohio
> Perry County
>
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