Things seemed pretty quiet at most spots.

Westerville Reservoir:
11 Wood Ducks
8 Bufflehead
60+ Ruddy Ducks
1 Scaup sp. - female
1 Pied-billed Grebe
1 Great Blue Heron

Mudhen Marsh - bridge
40+ Canada Geese
8+ Mallards
8 Hooded Mergansers (one very striking male)
20+ American Coots
3 Great Blue Herons
1 Northern Flicker
1 Northern Mockingbird
1 American Tree Sparrow

Hoover Reservoir - Sunbury Bridge Island
1 adult Bald Eagle flying to tree perch
50+ Canada Geese
10+ Mallards

Hoover Res. - Area M Boardwalk
10+ Mallards
1 Horned Grebe
1 Pied-billed Grebe
1 Red-tailed Hawk (heard only)
1 Northern Harrier (high overhead and gliding south)
5 Bonaparte's Gulls
1 Belted Kingfisher

Hoover Res. - Area I
8 Canada Geese
2 Bufflehead
1 Pied-billed Grebe
1 Cooper's Hawk
1 Red-tailed Hawk
1 Bald Eagle (juvenile soaring on thermal with Red-tail)
1 Belted Kingfisher
10+ Carolina Chickadees
4 Tufted Titmice
1 Carolina Wren
1 Golden-crowned Kinglet (wonderfully close!)
10+ Cedar Waxwings
20+ American Robins
6+ Northern Cardinals

Hoover Res. - Maxtown Rd. boat launch
10 Bufflehead
2 juv. Bald Eagles (flew from near to opposite shore)
1 Herring Gull
10+ Bonaparte's Gulls
10 Blue Jays

Bill Zimmerman
Cincinnati

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