Stopped at Summit Lake today at lunch. As I was parking, what I thought was a female mallard landed near the dock at the community center. When I stepped on, an American bittern flushed from immediately to the right. I watched for 80 seconds, in glorious sunshine, as it followed the shoreline around to the cattails behind the old Margaret Park school. Peace, Gregory Bennett Akron OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]