Today I went back to Hoover dam. There was nothing to see from on to of the dam so I walked back to the west side and walked north along the shore. There were the usual Canada Geese (one even had a neck band, mallards, and ring-billed gulls. There was a flock of six American coots swiming in the lake. I wasn't ready to go home so I took another walk across the dam and I'm glad I did. There were now 18 Buffleheads (males and females though not evenly paired) and 10 mallards in the spillway pond. I still didn't want to go home so I went to Alum Creek Dam. There was a flock of 31 American Coots in the water. There were only a few gulls flying overhead. I didn't see anything else because that's when I decided I was ready to go home. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]