I stopped at several spots around Hoover Reservoir (NE of Columbus) before the snowflakes started falling, and didn't find much outside of the dam & spillway area.  Stops at Maxtown, Area MN, Oxbow Island, and Char-Mar Preserve found few landbirds, though the Char-Mar feeder had attracted a little mixed flock of regulars.  The Spillway, though, still had a plethora of waterfowl, mostly Canada geese & dabbling ducks, and the surrounding parkland had some interesting birds as well.  Notables for the morning included:

Canada Geese - big flock (700+) still around holes north of Maxtown, while the spillway area had 300+ south along the creek
DabblingDucks - the spillway still had decent #s of Shovelers (12), Gadwalls (15), BlackDucks (10), and Wigeon (6) among the horde of Mallards (400+)
DivingDucks - not much, other than 2 Redhead and 12 Hooded Mergansers in the spillway, and 3 flyover Goldeneye.
Red-shouldered Hawk - an adult was all by his lonesome out on Oxbow Island, amid the iced-up northern reservoir
Barred Owl - a bird was calling from the pine grove in the Disc Golf course east of the spillway
Hairy Woodpeckers - single birds were at many locations, leading me to muse if there was .......a big Hairy invasion :-)
Pileated Woodpeckers - 1 calling in the pines of the Disc Golf Course (near the Barred owl, no less)
Sapsucker - 1 was calling in the woods at Big Walnut High School, north of Galena
E.Bluebird - a single bird was near the dam, feedering on wintercreeper berries
HermitThrush - a single bird was along the edge of the Disc Golf Course, feeding on wintercreeper berries
Yellow-rumped Warblers - 2 were in the forest strip next to the spillway at the dam, nowhere near any doughnuts

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