This morning I helped with a work project at the Hoover Nature Preserve.  
While waiting for the others at Hoover Meadows I checked out the pine grove  
where I located a barred Owl, Golden-crowned Kinglets, 2 Brown Creepers and a  
Red-breasted Nuthatch. Later during the work project we had a Bald Eagle do a  
fly-over near the north shore.
 
This afternoon Jim Fry joined me and we checked much of Hoover Reservoir  for 
waterfowl activity. The majority of the action was at the far north end of  
the reservoir. Highlights were the Red-throated Loon off the northeast end of  
Oxbow Island and the Eared Grebe off the boardwalk at Area M. The Eared Grebe  
has been my bane as I have missed it in 5 prior tries, whereas it cooperated 
for  everyone else. It made up for it by putting on a show while fishing close 
to the  boardwalk. At the rate it was catching and eating fish it’s going to 
need a long  runway to take flight.
 
Our list at Hoover Reservoir this afternoon included:
 
Red-throated Loon (1)
Common Loon  (75+)
Pied-billed  Grebe  (25)
Horned Grebe  (40)
Eared  Grebe  (1)
Double-crested Cormorant (17)
Great Blue  Heron  (13)
Canada Goose  (150)
Mute  Swan  (1)
Gadwall   (7)
American Black  Duck (6)
Mallard   (60)
Hooded  Merganser (150)
Cooper’s hawk  (1)
American  Coot  (23) 
Bonaparte’s Gull  (100)
Ring-billed  Gull  (300)
Herring Gull  (1)
Belted  Kingfisher  (3)
 
Charlie Bombaci
Hoover Nature Preserve
Delorme 58 C (2) &  (3)


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