Some days things just go right. After miss timing the Bald Eagles at the Westerville nest my last 4 trips they were there when I was today and they treated me to an aerial courtship flight circling and rolling with their talons towards each other. Feeling pleased with the experience I headed over to Hoover Reservoir to work on the Winter Bird Survey for Julie Shieldcastle and the Black Swamp Bird Observatory. At Hoover Reservoir I located 4 more adult Bald eagles and an immature. A pair of the eagles in the Oxbow Island area made my day as I watched another aerial display as they looped and chased each other about and then did the rolling maneuver with extended talons as they passed near each other. I was happy with one display but I never expected to catch this behavior twice in one day. Waterfowl activity is still slow at Hoover Reservoir with only scattered activity. In the southern part of the reservoir I located 2 Mute Swans off the Redbank Boat Ramp along with several Pied-billed Grebes and Hooded Mergansers. There was a lone Herring Gull near the dam. Off Oxbow Island in the south cove there were Hooded Mergansers, Pied-billed Grebes, 1 Horned Grebe and 4 Northern Shovelers. In the water to the north of Oxbow Island I located 13 Northern Shovelers, 2 Pied-billed Grebes, 2 Ruddy Ducks and several rafts of Hooded Mergansers. Along the east shore I located the Bald Eagles who then put on a show. On the island there were Golden-crowned Kinglets and Yellow-rumped Warblers, both in low numbers. I stopped at Mudhen Marsh and struck out again on the Red-headed Woodpeckers who are making themselves scare lately. While there I had a pair of Mute Swans fly over heading towards Oxbow Road. Except for the eagles courtship flights it was a quiet day. 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. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. 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]