The following site descriptions and instructions on how to get to the variously described locations are excerpted from the second edition of Birding In Ohio.
Part I directs the birder to to sites in the northern tier of counties, where in many cases birding is influenced by Lake Erie. Part II investigates the west-central counties, and Part III explores the birding possibilities of the unglaciated Allegheny Plateau counties of southern and eastern Ohio.
A number of regional editors provided invaluable data regarding many of the sites and directions on how to get to them. Thanks are especially due to John Schrader, Tom Kemp, Pete and Bill Whan, Bruce Stehling, Gildo Tori, John Pogacnik, Lynn Barnhart, Charles Bombaci, Elsie and Harry Knighton, Marcella and Howard Meahl, Tod Dawson, Ned Keller, Jay Stenger, and Glen Kitson.
Birding sites can sometimes become altered drastically over a few years, just as the ways of getting to them can change. If you are aware of changes that would make these accounts more informative, please don't hyperventilate and throw an adolescent fit, or mean-heartedly and stupidly condemn this entire project. Instead, calmly and in good humor, e-mail your information to: 73174.1766@compuserve.com
