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for me has been the Virginia Rail. Last year, I caught glimpses of a small bird that flashed in and out of the cattails around our local pond. The glimpses were so short and only silhouettes, so I could not ID the bird. I could see it was small and flew with legs dangling down and always low to the pond.
This year I managed to see it a few times and ID it as a Virginia Rail. It is surprising that it spends most of its time concealed in the cattails. Half the cattails are now dead and dry, and rustle when you brush against them, yet it moves almost silently amongst them, even making less noise than the Red-winged Blackbirds.
The first two are tight and heavy crops because I barely caught them in the left side of the frame.
An interesting fact I read about them, is that they have the highest ratio of leg muscles to wing muscles of any birds. Don't ask me who and how they tested all the birds in the world to come up with that.
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