I spent the morning around the southern end of Hoover reservoir, intending to look for stray migrants.  I wound up watching a steady trickle of landbird migrants past the east end of the dam, finding that this area acts like a funnel in much the same way as New Galena boat ramp on Alum Lake.  An hour of watching from this spot produced the following highlights:

Waterfowl - no real migrants other than 2 cormorant flying south over the dam
Raptors - 85+ Turkey Vultures sunning themselves on various trees and the shore along the west edge of the reservoir here.
Woodpeckers - 1 sapsucker and 4 flickers passed, headed south
Swifts & Swallows - None (and this is a very good spot for late individuals of both)
Larks & pipits - 5 single Horned Larks flew over, but no pipits
Blue Jays - 19 headed south, in singles or doubles
Thrushes - hermit along the nearby Hoover Nature Trail; only 15+ Robins flying south, along with 5 E,Bluebirds
Kinglets - lots of Ruby-crowns and Golden-crowns in the surrounding trees
Cedar Waxwings - 28 flying south, in several small flocks
Vireo - 1 Blue-headed on the edge of the trees
Warblers - 17+ Yellow-rumps flying south, and more in the surrounding forest, along with a Black-thr.Green.  A Palm warbler was at their reliable spot north of Area E further up the west side of the reservoir.
Blackbirds - a few redwings, but 125+ grackles and 5 cowbirds, all headed south
Sparrows - small #s of Chipping, White-throats, and Juncos moved past the dam, perhaps 6-8 of each.
Finches - small groups of Goldfinches, perhaps 20 in total, were enlivened by singles of Pine Siskin and Purple Finch flying past.

This area is perhaps one of the best areas to see the full width of the BigWalnut corridor, an IBA that stretches from Sunbury down to Columbus.  It's mostly forested, so it doesn't attract as many of the field & edge birds as Alum Lake (which is mostly succesional fields), but should be a good migration funnel for most other birds.

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