Richard, you have no idea how many times I stopped breathing altogether just waiting for your e-mail to open!!?? -Rolan

Rolan Nelson
Fircrest, WA
rnbuffle at yahoo.com


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From: "Pterodroma at aol.com" <Pterodroma at aol.com>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2013 10:21 AM
Subject: [Tweeters] black rail, LHG-Bellevue



Well..., not THE "Black Rail", relax,?...rather two largish but still
all black fluffy-downy Virginia Rail chicks were seen out and about on
the main trail early this morning near the creek gauging station just south of
the central section hemlock/cedar grove running about and darting in and out of
the tallish trail side grasses.? Obviously a nesting success this season in
Bellevue's Lake Hills Greenbelt (LHG)?and the first Virginia Rails
I've?seen or heard?at all since May (once) and?seriously since
April when they were more vocal.? A good morning for Virginia Rails it
seems as I also heard one unprovoked?grunt call from the marsh vegetation a
few feet south of the Phantom Lake deck at sunrise,?my first detection at
all from there since April which at the time this morning?I thought was a
big deal bonus day?bird?until I also saw the two chicks on the trail
about a half-mile distance from Phantom Lake, so a double bonus.

Richard Rowlett
Bellevue (Eastgate), WA
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