a big day (actually 15 minutes) at this Summit County spot. after a slow hour along the towpath, within a few minutes and feet of each other, all on the west side of the towpath, along the canal, around 10:15 am saw: - immature Virginia rail (immed north of Beaver Pond) - green heron (in Beaver Pond) - immature sora (immed south of Beaver Pond) - least bittern (in a bush 3 ft above the sora) - *life bird* - great blue heron (a bit south of that). July ended up a big month! ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]