
A Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) in flight - nice side view

A drone was deployed one day providing a different view of rice harvesting and rails flushing

Sora (Porzana carolina) - skimming the tops of the unharvested rice

Sora (Porzana carolina) - skimming the tops of the unharvested rice

Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis)

Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) - Common in the rice fields

Sora (Porzana carolina) - in flight flushed by the combine

Out doing a little crawfishing.

Steve and Donna watch the combine pass - the best organizers and leaders I have ever met

Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) in flight

Marsh Wren (Cistothorus palustris) - In Flight, Flushed by the combine, common

A nice shot of the combine making a pass near the mist nets

Dickcissel (Spiza americana)

Marsh Wren (Cistothorus palustris) - In Flight, Flushed by the combine, common

A Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) acts like a shearwater moments before dropping into the rice

A Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) scoots out of the way of the advancing combine

Wide Shot of the Combine making a rail-rich pass

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Erik Johnson and a YRARF Facilitator watch the combine

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Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus) - immature

Lark Sparrow (Chondestes grammacus)