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Virginia Rails



At noon on August 16th at Bear River Wildlife Refuge there were four juvenile Virginian Rails persistently feeding in the open on the puddle just left of the small bridge on the North dike road of the auto-tour road exactly 1.6 miles from the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge welcome sign.  I was not able to scope out any unusual migrating shorebirds such as the stilt sandpipers reported earlier.  It is incredible how little water is left in the refuge impoundments.  Alan S. Condie