Last Saturday's sighting was only the twelfth record for "secretive" Virginia Rail.
Here below --all single birds- are the other dates and locations of past sightings :
Virginia Rail Prospect Park 10/22/1918
Virginia Rail Prospect Park 9/23/1939
Virginia Rail Upper Pool 10/15/1991
Virginia Rail Upper Pool 5/3/1998
Virginia Rail Prospect Park 9/25/2000
Virginia Rail Prospect Park 10/31/2000
Virginia Rail Pools 10/21/2003
Virginia Rail South Lakeside 9/24/2005
Virginia Rail Duck Island 4/6/2006
Virginia Rail Pools 11/8/2006
Virginia Rail Boathouse 4/21/2009
