New one for me. Possibly a black rail. Best I can figure it was.

Arkansas along US65 south of Clinton. Compactish very dark waterbird in flight. Much smaller than the egrets. Not a gallinule nor coot, though I did interact with an old coot in Little Rock.

Our brood of (2/5 hatched) parakeets is fully dead now. Mom seems sickly. We're hell on pets.


"I can't be canceled, because, I don't give a fuuck!"
--- Kid Rock 2022


Holocaust Deniers, the ultimate perverted dipchits: Bristoe, TheRealHawkeye, stophel, Ghostinthemachine, anyone else?