I made forays to several locations in Blendon Woods & around Hoover Dam to look for late landbird migrants and early waterfowl, and was largely stiffed on both.  Despite the nice morning, landbird migrants other than blackbirds were hard to come by.  A few waterfowl have found Thoreau Pond at Blendon, but the lower reaches of Hoover Reservoir were conspicuously empty except for gulls.  The few highlights included:

waterfowl - 4 Lesser Scaup & 2 Hooded Mergansers at Thoreau Lake; nothaing at Hoover other than Mallards & geese

Gulls - 120-140 Bonaparte's Gulls zooming around the lower reservoir, along with 100+ Ring-bills

woodpeckers - active Pileateds at both Blendon (2) and Hoover Nature trail (1), but no migrant sapsuckers or Red-headeds

nuthatches - many white-breasted nuthatches but no Red-breasteds despite a search of 3 different pine groves.

wrens, kinglets - only 1 Winter Wren (at Blendon) despite being in perfect ravine habitat most of the morning.  Only 1 Ruby-crowned (at Blendon), but plenty of Golden-crowned at several stops (especially in the pine groves)

Bluebirds - on the way through, with high-flying groups of 3 & 5 at Blendon, 2 more at Hoover

Warblers - only Yellow-rumps, but plenty of them at both sites

Blackbirds - high-flying flocks headed south over Blendon during the early morning, with very few later.


Rob Thorn
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