Sixteen brave souls ventured forth into the wind, snow, and ice for a bone-chilling day along the southern shore of Lake Erie. We left Worthington around 5:40 AM, but didn’t arrive at Conneaut until 9:30 AM due to poor road conditions and an unscheduled detour through the median of I-90 in Lake County. Fortunately, only […]
Longspurs Rescue Avids: 13 February, 1999 Read More »
This was a trip to remember. Seven participants ventured up to the Niagara Frontier Region of Ontario for a great weekend of birding. The weather was wonderful and the birds were very cooperative. Four participants visited Presque Isle State Park, PA on the way up on Friday, December 11. The rest of us didn’t arrive
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Eleven Avids braved the warm, almost subtropical, weather as they ventured to the New Jersey coast this December. Warm you say? That’s right. The southerly air flow was still in effect when they took their “winter” pelagic into the Atlantic Ocean on Saturday, December 5. The highlight of the day: an American Woodcock 40 miles
Avids Take a Sea Cruise: 4 – 7 December, 1998 Read More »
Nine people enjoyed this brisk November Saturday for a divide and conquer mission. We decided to split into two groups and cover different areas of the state. One group ventured up to the central basin of Lake Erie (group one), while the other group wandered north-northwest for an inland outing (group two). We left Worthington
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Eleven people braved the cold and nearly constant rain for this October adventure to the Lake Erie shoreline. We left Worthington Square Mall at 5:30 AM and birded the lakeshore until approximately 4:00 PM. Despite the weather, it was a pretty productive trip, but no rarities were found. All in all, we tallied 69 species.
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