
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

Franklin's Gull (Larus pipixcan) in flight, view from underneath

Lake Arthur

Erik Johnson and a YRARF Facilitator watch the combine

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

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

Yellow Rail (Coturnicops noveboracensis) in flight

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

Lake Arthur Sunset

Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis)

Wood Stork (Mycteria americana) - late

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

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

Greater White-fronted Geese (Anser albifrons) arriving at dusk

Dickcissel (Spiza americana)

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

Mermentau river

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

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

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

Grass used by Pyrrhuloxia

Darner (Anax sp.) photo bombed by a Yellow Rail (C. noveboracensis)