Today I checked out the Old Sunbury Road and Hoover Meadows sections of the Hoover Nature Preserve. Linda and I began with Old Sunbury Road where we were greeted by Golden-crowned and Ruby-crowned Kinglets. Both were present in impressive numbers all along the old road. We also located Brown Creepers, many Yellow-rumped Warblers, 3 Palm Warblers and several Winter Wrens. We checked out the pine grove and located 2 Barred Owls and more kinglets. Further along near Pelican Island there was still some mudflat exposed and we found 2 Long-billed Dowitchers, the only shorebirds for the day. In the cove near Pelican Island there were many Horned Grebes and a few Pied-billed Grebes, 2 Lesser Scaup, 2 Ring-necked Ducks, 6 Red-breasted Mergansers and 9 Wood Ducks. Hoover Meadows proved to be the place for sparrows as we located 7 different species. We also found a large group of Dark-eyed Juncos, a sign the season is changing. In the brushy edge areas we located more Winter Wrens, an Eastern Towhee and a late migrating Wilson’s Warbler. Our list for these two areas included: Pied-billed Grebe (7) Horned Grebe (17) Double-crested Cormorant (32) Great Blue Heron (9) Turkey Vulture (11) Canada Goose (200+) Wood Duck (9) American Black Duck (6) Mallard (23) Green-winged Tea (5)l Ring-necked Duck (2) Lesser Scaup (2) Red-breasted Merganser (8) Bald Eagle (1) American Coot (39) Long-billed Dowitcher (2) Bonaparte’s Gull (25) Ring-billed Gull (100+) Mourning Dove (13) Barred Owl (2) Belted Kingfisher (1) Red-headed Woodpecker (1) Red-bellied Woodpecker (6) Downy Woodpecker (9) Hairy Woodpecker (1) Northern Flicker (7) Blue Jay (27) American Crow (45) Tree Swallow (5) Carolina Chickadee (11) Tufted Titmouse (9) White-breasted Nuthatch (4) Brown Creeper (3) Carolina Wren (8) Winter Wren (3) Golden-crowned Kinglet (19) Ruby-crowned Kinglet (16) Eastern Bluebird (8) American Robin (30+) Gray Catbird (1) Northern Mockingbird (1) European Starling (200+) Cedar waxwing (13) Yellow-rumped Warbler (28) Palm Warbler (3) Wilson’s Warbler (1) Eastern Towhee (1) Field Sparrow (12) Savannah Sparrow (8) Song Sparrow (10) Lincoln’s Sparrow (3) Swamp Sparrow (14) White-throated Sparrow (27) White-crowned Sparrow (4) Dark-eyed Junco (11) Northern cardinal (24) Red-winged Blackbird (2) Common Grackle (5) House Finch (4) American Goldfinch (12) House Sparrow (8) Charlie Bombaci Hoover Nature Preserve Delorme 58 C (2) & (3) ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]