tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post2522094108533069708..comments2023-10-26T03:19:41.569-07:00Comments on Stephen Bodio's Querencia: Rail SeasonSteve Bodiohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14434597061701369867noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-82539021164863781682012-10-14T18:20:21.167-07:002012-10-14T18:20:21.167-07:00Mullenix posts! Matt- we were lucky enough to catc...Mullenix posts! Matt- we were lucky enough to catch a sora at a bird banding demonstration a little while ago, the first I'd had to hand. Interesting bird. Hope the rest of your season goes as well for you, Rina, and Ernie. mdmnmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00191436711956580423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-20390999222002142202012-10-04T15:56:01.837-07:002012-10-04T15:56:01.837-07:00I have Sanford's book on this computer. It'...I have Sanford's book on this computer. It's a good one.Retrievermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15780519136583108632noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-36835366160412310052012-09-30T08:28:42.580-07:002012-09-30T08:28:42.580-07:00Teddy I hadn't heard about your bird---very so...Teddy I hadn't heard about your bird---very sorry! Ernie just had a booster of his WNV vaccine. They say it's the worst WNV year since the thing started. Dead blue jays common again and crows hard to find. Dozens of people have been sick with it in La., and some have died. <br /><br />Cat: I appreciate it!<br /><br />Neutrino: rails get a bad rap as an eating bird. I like them a lot and believe the reputation is from ignorance--mine too until I ate one. They taste like doves, but milder. If I had eaten them before I tried dove, I think I would find dove too strong. Now I'd rather eat rails, but doves are much easier to come by and have more meat on them.<br /><br />As for the multi-purpose bird guide, there are several but you may have to go back a ways to find one. In my library I have Sanford's "The Waterfowl Family"(1924), which is part field guide and part shooting treatise. I have others with recipies.<br /><br />Sanford begins chapter 7 ("Rail Shooting") like this: "When the wild oats along the tidal rivers of our coast begin to turn yellow with the first touch of fall, the time for rail has come, and the high tides of September give the sportsman his first chance."<br /><br />Later, there are several chapters devoted to "Shore-bird Shooting." :-) Matt Mullenixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11198069782508775543noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-23908765279441144412012-09-29T22:40:59.170-07:002012-09-29T22:40:59.170-07:00Rails and their relatives, coots and "moorhen...Rails and their relatives, coots and "moorhens", are dark and delicious if cooked right which many don't. You may have to skin the coots, which can have a rank taste there, but many kinds are eaten from Maine to the Cajun areas. I like all.<br /><br />Will we see you next week?Steve Bodiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14434597061701369867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-9091248974951078222012-09-29T21:56:31.918-07:002012-09-29T21:56:31.918-07:00I did not realize that rail were particularly pala...I did not realize that rail were particularly palatable. Prior to reading this post, the only reference I'd ever heard of anyone eating them was the extirpation of a species of flightless rail in the South Pacific by the isolated Japanese Army garrison there in the war.<br /><br />As I had mentioned to Steve, I have a number of books on bird phylogeny that go out of their way to mention the apparently stellar taste of tinamou meat. No other family of birds receives the slightest culinary footnote!<br /><br />Hmmm... a culinary guide to ornithology... that would be a worthy undertaking.<br /><br />Anyway, good to hear news from you, and I hope to see a rail recipe in the future!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-75471010507834780362012-09-29T18:58:02.461-07:002012-09-29T18:58:02.461-07:00Excellent post Matt, glad to know you and Ernie ar...Excellent post Matt, glad to know you and Ernie are back out there.Cat Urbigkithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12649103651692682453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8732486.post-42667230534516133382012-09-29T16:16:44.755-07:002012-09-29T16:16:44.755-07:00Wonderful season opener, Matt, thanks for the insp...Wonderful season opener, Matt, thanks for the inspiration. Lost my hen Harris to WNV in August and have just gotten a tiercel HH. Teddynoreply@blogger.com