On the advice of certain people here I have been looking at every 
individual in a flock and it has paid off.  Today I went to Hoover saw 
some interesting birds.  I made stops all the wayt from the dam around to 
Red Bank Marina on the west bank.

Hooded Mergansers
Red-Breasted Mergansers (mixed in wwith the Hooded Mergansers)
Mallards
Canada Geese including Richardson's, Lesser, Greater, Dusky, and Cackling
Buffleheads
1 pair of Ruddy Ducks
1 pair of Northern Pintals (mixed in with a flock of Mallards on the 
spillway pond)
1 pair of Northern Shovellers (mixed in with a flock of Mallards below the 
spillway)
A large flock of gulls which turned out to be all Ring-Billed Gulls but 
there were adults and second winter in that flock.
Northern Cardinal
White Breasted Nuthatch 
A pair of Swamp Sparrows

I saw a very large flock of Canada Geese in the area immediately above the 
Smothers Road causeway,  In that flock I saw two collard geese.  One of 
those looked like he may have been a dusky goose, the other possibly a 
cackling goose or maybe even an Aleutian Goose.  There was a goose in the 
flock that looked like a hybrid Canada Goose-Graylag goose.  He had orange 
legs and an orange bill with some white on his face but also son black 
spots.  I thought I saw a goose with red on it in the flock.  It turned 
out to be a wounded Greater Canada Goose.  It was wounded right at the top 
of the leg with blood staining the white feathers.

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