While walking off trail yesterday mid-day just north of the gravel road entrance to CRP off Erie Rd. I scared up a least bittern out of cover of heavy reeds at one end of a small pond.  A GBH had flown off just prior to this from the same pond, which was quite secluded.   Beautiful weather but fairly quiet at the time I was there, some downy wps, yellow warblers, nothing else out of the ordinary though there were several deer, probably at least 10 in three groupings, one of which looked like a buck with a piece of arrow stuck in his right rear thigh...noticed this later  looking at the photos, seemed to have healed over but the leg looked gimpy.  Photo of bittern here:
http://www.pbase.com/image/112720037
 
Denny McDonnell
Euclid

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