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
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
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
Erik Johnson and a YRARF Facilitator watch the combine
Savannah Sparrow (Passerculus sandwichensis) - Common in the rice fields
Sora (Porzana carolina) - in flight flushed by the combine
Darner (Anax sp.) photo bombed by a Yellow Rail (C. noveboracensis)
A Banding Workshop participant sprints to a bird (seen in the lower panel of the mist net) captured during one of the combine passes