[EBB Sightings] Arrowhead luck

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Went out to Arrowhead Marsh about noon today with the wife.  Low tide at =
ll:50 wasn't so low at 3.4 feet and I wasn't expecting much.  We're just =
out of the car and she pokes me, pointing, a clapper rail out in the =
noonday sun.  OK, a fluke.  We sat on the bench and ate lunch.  We walk =
to the end of the boardwalk and the familiar poke with "lookee there!"  =
Another one.  It came out and bathed, splashed and preened in the water =
less than 20 feet away.  Went back and walked into the bushes.  I =
imitated a trick I saw someone else do and clapped my hands twice.  Out =
it came, looking around. It stayed out, tame as a barnyard chicken, =
oblivious to us.  We left it when she had to pick up the grandkids from =
school.

I go out way more often than she.  I even went out to the docks in my =
feeble attempt to learn gulls (should have gone to the dumps, few gulls =
at the docks that day).  I have Peterson and Sibley and I study them.  =
I'm all over the internet, here and elsewhere, studying birding.  When =
we go out, I have to (again) explain how to use the eye-cups on the =
bins.  The closest I've come to a Clapper Rail, since she last pointed =
some out to me, was on a group trip where I may have seen part of one in =
the bushes.  It's luck I tell you, all luck!  Ask any fisherman.  Some =
folks are lucky.  Oh well,  Dezi & Lucy; George & Gracie; Me and =
........ At least I know where my luck is.

Happy birding
Bob
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with the wife.  Low tide at ll:50 wasn't so low at 3.4 feet and I =
wasn't=20
expecting much.  We're just out of the car and she pokes me, =
pointing, a=20
clapper rail out in the noonday sun.  OK, a fluke.  We sat on =
the=20
bench and ate lunch.  We walk to the end of the boardwalk and the =
familiar=20
poke with "lookee there!"  Another one.  It came out and =
bathed,=20
splashed and preened in the water less than 20 feet away.  Went =
back and=20
walked into the bushes.  I imitated a trick I saw someone else do =
and=20
clapped my hands twice.  Out it came, looking around. It stayed =
out, tame=20
as a barnyard chicken, oblivious to us.  We left it when she had to =
pick up=20
the grandkids from school.
she.  I even went out to the docks in my =
feeble=20
attempt to learn gulls (should have gone to the dumps, few gulls at the =
docks=20
that day).  I have Peterson and Sibley and I study them.  I'm =
all over=20
the internet, here and elsewhere, studying birding.  When we =
go out, I=20
have to (again) explain how to use the eye-cups on the bins.  The =
closest=20
I've come to a Clapper Rail, since she last pointed some out to me, was =
on a=20
group trip where I may have seen part of one in the bushes.  It's =
luck I=20
tell you, all luck!  Ask any fisherman.  Some folks are =
lucky. =20
Oh well,  Dezi & Lucy; George & Gracie; Me and ........ At =
least I=20
know where my luck is.

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