This morning I helped with a work project at the Hoover Nature Preserve. While waiting for the others at Hoover Meadows I checked out the pine grove where I located a barred Owl, Golden-crowned Kinglets, 2 Brown Creepers and a Red-breasted Nuthatch. Later during the work project we had a Bald Eagle do a fly-over near the north shore. This afternoon Jim Fry joined me and we checked much of Hoover Reservoir for waterfowl activity. The majority of the action was at the far north end of the reservoir. Highlights were the Red-throated Loon off the northeast end of Oxbow Island and the Eared Grebe off the boardwalk at Area M. The Eared Grebe has been my bane as I have missed it in 5 prior tries, whereas it cooperated for everyone else. It made up for it by putting on a show while fishing close to the boardwalk. At the rate it was catching and eating fish it’s going to need a long runway to take flight. Our list at Hoover Reservoir this afternoon included: Red-throated Loon (1) Common Loon (75+) Pied-billed Grebe (25) Horned Grebe (40) Eared Grebe (1) Double-crested Cormorant (17) Great Blue Heron (13) Canada Goose (150) Mute Swan (1) Gadwall (7) American Black Duck (6) Mallard (60) Hooded Merganser (150) Cooper’s hawk (1) American Coot (23) Bonaparte’s Gull (100) Ring-billed Gull (300) Herring Gull (1) Belted Kingfisher (3) 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]