Sometimes a day can make a great deal of difference. The last time I checked Hoover Reservoir for waterfowl activity the water was practically void of activity. Today I initially went to see if the Eared Grebe was still off the boardwalk at Area M. It may be the only bird I didn't find as it managed to elude me. It may still be there but it didn't make an appearance for me. However, waterfowl are arriving en masse which probably didn't help to find the Eared Grebe. The bay off the boardwalk had hundreds of ducks and later when checking at Oxbow Road and on southward I observed waterfowl the length of Hoover Reservoir. Birds observed included: Common Loon 6 Pied-billed Grebe 17 Horned Grebe 43 Double-crested Cormorant 100+ Great Blue Heron 10 Turkey Vulture 7 Canada Goose 300+ Mute Swan 6 Wood Duck 2 Gadwall 5 American Black Duck 14 Mallard 111 Northern Shoveler 31 Ring-necked Duck 200+ Lesser Scaup 117 Hooded Merganser 500+ Red-breasted Merganser 19 Ruddy Duck 52 Bald Eagle 1 Northern Harrier 1 Red-tailed Hawk 3 American Kestrel 1 American Coot 24 Bonaparte's Gull 200+ Ring-billed Gull 400+ Herring Gull 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 5 Downy Woodpecker 5 Northern Flicker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Brown Creeper 2 Carolina Wren 4 Winter Wren 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler 4 Swamp Sparrow 2 White-throated Sparrow 29 White-crowned Sparrow 4 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]