n88n88: strange bird. the guy with me played a call he said was a king rail and this bird went nuts, running out if the grass right in front of us. looking at the pictures, though, it sure looks like a clapper. it was a freshwater pond, but there's saltwater n
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n88n88: yellow-crowned night heron
n88n88: yellow-billed cuckoo
n88n88: the entire seaward beach was torn up like this for some oil spill recovery purpose...
n88n88: swamp rabbit? eastern cottontail?
n88n88: these blue crabs were snapping at tadpoles in a roadside ditch.
n88n88: brown pelicans
n88n88: blue grosbeak
n88n88: sanderling
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n88n88: western palm warbler
n88n88: brown creeper
n88n88: big flock of black skimmers, royal and caspian terns. spooked by a harrier.
n88n88: laughing gull
n88n88: clapper rail
n88n88: little blue heron
n88n88: sandwich terns, forester's terns, black skimmer