I do remember in the early days when I first set out to watch banded rail, I was always unlucky. Following a search at a wetland reserve and still no success someone commented that I should have seen them as the place was 'dripping with rails'.
Gradually my luck changed, or I became more observant, and I began to see them more often in coastal wetland habitats.
I regularly watch them at Wenderhom Regional Park providing the tide in the estuary is just right to enable them to feed. Today was ideal and these photos show one rail busy feed as the tide recedes.
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| This banded rail launches itself at a crab |
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| Another tasty crab is caught |
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| The crab is dipped in a pool probably to remove sand |
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| The crab still alive is swallowed whole. |
