Clapper Rail, Silver Sands SP 11 June 10

This Clapper Rail is featured below preening in the brief video taken from the parking lot boardwalk at Silver Sands State Park in Milford, CT on the morning of June 10. A nearby Clapper on the opposite side of the boardwalk is probably a male producing what Sibley describes as "single hard ket notes repeated monotonously (about 2 notes/sec)." The second video shows a Clapper Rail next to the Silver Sands boardwalk on 2 July 10. The rail, seemingly oblivious to the human traffic, foraged and swam next to the crowded boardwalk at the height of a summer day.