I also vote for Virginia rail!

Rick H. Hudson Seattle, WA rhhudson at u.washington.edu


On Tue, 25 Mar 1997, Scott Richardson wrote:

> > From: Jon. Anderson
> > Its call was a same pitch flat call, repeated in 4 to 6 calls per
> > vocalization.. Very non melodious, somewhat frog like. Later as I came
> > back by the place, I glimpsed a robin sized bird walking on the cattail
> > stems at the water level. Mostly what I saw was a quickly disappearing
> > bird butt, that had a fair amount of white color, with some brown to rust
> > surrounding feathers. That's it.
> >
> > Ideas????
>
> Virginia Rail?
> --
> Scott Richardson
> northeast Seattle
> salix at halcyon.com
> http://www.halcyon.com/salix/
> (updated March 22)
>