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Yeah, BIWA is a good place for both species, but with a lot more frogs
than rails! Yellow rails, like most birds, use their vocalizations
mostly during the breeding period, rather than fall, and if you listen
to recordings, their sounds are easily distinguishable from the far more
likely and numerous sounds from the frogs. The BNA treatment says "In
Michigan, males cease calling about mid-Jul (Stenzel 1982), but in
Quebec they call as late as 25 Aug (Robert and Laporte 1993)."
Still, there are plenty of September records of yellow rails in Ohio,
and the October records tend to be early in the month. Overall, we get a
lot more yellow rails in Ohio than are ever documented well enough to
record.
Bill Whan


On 9/11/2013 3:57 PM, Jeff Grabmeier wrote:
> However, as a counterpoint, I had a visual confirmation of a Yellow Rail in
> flight at Big Island on an Aug. 15, way back in 1999. So they definitely
> have occurred there at this time of year.
>
> Jeff Grabmeier
> Columbus, Ohio
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:05 PM, jen brumfield <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> While Big Island certainly offers incredible and vast habitat for all rail
>> species, Yellow Rail typically does not pass through northern Ohio until
>> the first and second weeks of October. Please keep in mind, OH birders,
>> that Big Island has a solid population of Blanchard's Cricket Frogs, which
>> sound nearly exactly like Yellow Rail, and have historically confused
>> several birders visiting this location.
>>
>> Jen [log in to unmask]
>> Cleveland, Ohio
>> 330-701-6452
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>>> Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:18:56 -0400
>>> From: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: [Ohio-birds] Yellow Rail - Big Lsland Marsh
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>>
>>> We had a Yellow Rail calling just before daylight at Big Island Marsh
>>> Marion County. The marsh was filled with Soras, perhaps in the hundreds.
>>> The bird began calling and continued for about 5-6 minutes and then
>>> started up briefly about 20 minutes later. The Yellow Rail was in pool
>> one
>>> off of Larue Prospect RD near area headquarters. We were parked in the
>>> second parking pull off and walked up the dike just to the left of the
>>> lot, between pool one and two, east of the headquarters. About a quarter
>>> mile to the right is a set of willows about 150 yards out. We were 70
>>> yards east of that location in the marsh. I will be in the area again on
>>> Thursday, driving a Silver-gray GMC Yukon. I know there are no
>> guarantees,
>>> but this is the best I can do on directions. I do think if the rails stay
>>> thru the night, you could here the calling from the dike. There could
>> have
>>> been more than one bird as the second set of calls was some 75-100 yards
>>> away from the first location. Do not know if it was the same or different
>>> bird for sure. But the number of Soras was a bit staggering. We flushed
>> no
>>> less than 35 and they were calling all around us.
>>>
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