Hi All, I stopped by Hoover Reservoir this afternoon. I only poked around a couple of locations. At the boardwalk I ran into Cheryl Harner, President of the Greater Mohican Audubon Society, who pointed out a number of great looking Hooded Mergansers tucked up in the nooks & crannies along the shoreline opposite the end of the boardwalk. There were also about 20 Canada Geese hiding in along the shoreline as well as about 6-8 Pied-billed Grebes (in the vegetation near the Osprey platform), 2-3 Great Blue Herons, a single Horned Grebe, a feral Muscovy Duck, 4 Downy Woodpeckers, 2 Northern Cardinals, 1 White-breasted Nuthatch, 1 Brown Creeper, 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet, and several Carolina Chickadees. Unfortunately no Eared Grebe. C'est la vie. Cheryl also gave me a good tip about a large raft of ducks off of Oxbow road. I stopped by Oxbow Road around 3:15 p.m. and on the drive back I found about 30-40 Northern Shovelers dabbling along the road. From the parking lot I was able to scan the lake and found the following species. Common Loon (1) Loon sp. (1 quick flyby) Horned Grebe (4) Tundra Swans (8) Lesser Scaup (200-300) Greater Scaup (~25-30) Ring-necked Ducks (40-50) Canvasbacks (8-10) Redheads (20-25) Buffleheads (50-60) Ruddy Ducks (12-15) Red-breasted Merganer (1) Hooded Mergansers (3) Bonaparte's Gulls (4-flyby) Ring-billed gulls (too many and too distant to count) Belted Kingfisher (1) There may have also been 5 or 6 Black Scoters, but I was having some difficulty getting a good look because of some heat distortion against the opposite shore. The sunlight around 4:00 p.m. was perfect for scoping out many of the ducks from Oxbow, and provided good looks at most. Thanks, Casey Columbus, OH