Sean Williams and I spent 10 hours today birding Delaware County’s largest reservoirs: Hoover, Alum Creek, and Delaware.  Waterfowl, loons, grebes, and gulls were plentiful at each site.  Highlights were a RED-THROATED LOON (Hoover Dam), 2 RED-NECKED GREBES (Sunbury causeway and Smother’s causeway at Hoover), and 1 BREWER”S BLACKBIRD at Pond 1B in Delaware Wildlife Area.  Multiple pipits and Tree Swallows were also exciting.  At each stop we kept detailed numbers on water birds and made sure to count no bird twice.
   
  HOOVER (not every species is listed)
                                                                            1     Red-throated Loon
6     Common Loon – all in breeding plumage
4     Pied-billed Gebe
1     Red-necked Grebe
24   Horned Grebe
9     Double-crested Cormorant
4     Great Blue Heron
1     Mute Swan
~100 Canada Goose
2     Wood Duck
78   Mallard
2     Blue-winged Teal
6     Redhead
388 Ring-necked Duck
2     Greater Scaup
44   Lesser Scaup
124 Scaup sp.
29   Bufflehead
1     Common Goldeneye
63   Hooded Merganser
840 Red-breasted Merganser
3     Ruddy Duck
45   Turkey Vulture
1     Osprey
1     Bald Eagle
2     Cooper’s Hawk
4     Red-Tailed Hawk
52   American Coot
24   Killdeer
7     Herring Gull
350 Ring-billed Gull
3     Tree Swallow
1     Brown Creeper
4     American Pipit 
2     Yellow-rumped Warbler
2     Eastern Meadowlark 
 
  ALUM CREEK
                                 
1     Pied-billed Grebe
11   Horned Grebe
5     Ring-necked Ducks
2     Greater Scaup
262 Lesser Scaup
77   Bufflehead
18   Commom Goldeneye
2     Ruddy Duck
1     American Kestrel
2     Herring Gull
27   American Coot
15   Killdeer
21   Tree Swallow
10   American Pipit
 
  DELAWARE 
                                                             8      Horned Grebe
3      Pied-billed Grebe
20    Great Blue Heron
~65 Canada Goose
28   Wood Duck 
8     Gadwall
41   American Wigeon
29   American Black Duck 
110 Mallard
4     Blue-winged Teal
26   Northern Shoveler 
29   Northern Pintail
36   Green-winged Teal
15   Canvasback
472 Redhead
871 Ring-necked Duck
7     Greater Scaup
357 Lesser Scaup
5     Bufflehead
65   Hooded Merganser
85   Red-breasted Merganser
7     Ruddy Duck
1     Bald Eagle
~3000 Ring-billed Gull
37   American Coot
7     Killdeer
1   American Woodcock
~2000 mixed blackbird – there is a nightly blackbird roost at Pond1B.    
1    BREWER”S BLACKBIRD- female  
   
    Jack Stenger,
Ohio Wesleyan University
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
    
  
       
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