I was able to get away for a little while this morning and spend a few hours birding the south end of Hoover Reservoir. It was extremely cold, probably close to 0 deg. F with windchill. A little windy, but not too bad. Snowing lightly off and on. I started at the Dam and spillway, and worked my way northward along the western shore. It ended up being a pretty good day for birds. Here's what I saw: Spillway: Ring-billed Gull 20 Herring Gull 1 Mallard 15 Bufflehead 9 Hooded Merganser 12 Red-tailed Hawk 1 White-crowned Sparrow 8 Song Sparrow 2 Am. Goldfinch 3 Dam: Horned Grebe 1 Canada Goose 45 Ring-billed Gull 5 Walnut Boat Ramp (just N. of dam on Sunbury Rd) Ring-billed Gull 25 Herring Gull 1 Bonaparte's Gull 6 Hooded Merganser 20 Mallard 16 Black Duck 4 N. Pintail 10 Am. Wigeon 1 Ring-necked Duck 2 Horned Grebe 5 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Canada Goose 17 Blue Jay 3 N. Cardinal 2 Dark-eyed Junco 9 Am. Crow 2 Downy Woodpecker 1 unidentified sparrows 2 SNOW BUNTING ~35 (2 small flocks flew over, coming in from the NE and heading SW) Horned Lark 1 (at least one, following closely behind the Snow Buntings, maybe one or two more mixed in w/ the buntings) Maxtown Road Boat Launch: Ring-billed Gull 6 Hooded Merganser 20 Red-breasted Merganser 8 Ring-necked Duck 2 Mallard 10 Black Duck 2 Horned Grebe 2 Canada Goose 15 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Blue Jay 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Dark-eyed Junco LAPLAND LONGSPUR ~12 (small flock flew just overhead, calling; also heading SW; about 16 or 18 birds total, mostly Longspurs but a few larks mixed in) Horned Lark 3 or 4 House Finch 4 Hoover Meadows: (I was hoping for a Redpoll, but no luck) Am. Tree Sparrow ~10 Song Sparrow 3 Am Goldfinch 5 Cardinals 10 Blue Jays 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 House Finch 1 plus juncos, starlings, house sparrows, etc. Happy Holidays, Nate Nye Hilliard, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]