Guide to Hunting Clapper Rails

Clapper rails don’t sing. They cackle. It’s a guttural call emanating from somewhere deep within each tiny bird that reverberates with enough force to trigger a cascade. Once one rail calls, every rail within earshot erupts into its own chorus. The cacophony sends a ripple through the salt marsh and shatters its peaceful silence like glass.

Today, however, there is no peace, and there is no silence. It’s already been shattered. A violent collision of arctic air and Gulf Stream winds just smacked the mid-Atlantic shore. Now, the rails and I are caught knee-deep in the chaos.

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Listening was like listening to a friend relay a hunting story.

The points were detracted due to the narrator mispronouncing certain words, other than that I actually stopped what I was doing to listen several times. I had to remember that I was at work, and so had to keep moving. Just like the other episodes it was overall a winner. Listening to this collection keeps me sane when I can't be out in the woods and fields hunting.