Donna Kuhn

Upland Sandpiper - Photo Bruce Satta Breaking with tradition, and since we were heading east, we met at the Cracker Barrel off I-70 and Route 256. We took a Yellow Warbler singing in the parking lot as a sign of more interesting birds to come. We arrived in Harrison County to meet guest leader for [...]

As usual, we met while it was still dark to make the trek to Lake Erie. Temperatures were in the 30s with 10 to 20 mph winds, which sounds tough but really was not bad for March in Cleveland. Breaking with tradition, we stopped at Burger King before heading for the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport

We started with temperatures in the 40’s, unseasonably warm for February. Our first bird was a Song Sparrow singing in the Worthington Mall parking lot, indicating that 5:30 am is not too early for the birds. Our usual early morning McDonalds stop yielded an additional five birds including the the ubiquitous House Sparrows that we

Editor's note: We have no pictures from this trip. It was so cold that our photographers would not take off their gloves to manipulate cameras! A chilly, windy day found the Avids heading for the lake, where we knew it would be even colder and windier. There was just a trace of snow and no

Editor’s note: We have no pictures from this trip, as our best photographers (Andy and Lisa) were not along and everyone else was too busy watching the birds. Somehow 5:00 in the (barely) morning seems so much earlier than our usual 5:30 meeting time. Despite no reported sightings in the past two days for the ABA