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 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]