On the advice of certain people here I have been looking at every individual in a flock and it has paid off. Today I went to Hoover saw some interesting birds. I made stops all the wayt from the dam around to Red Bank Marina on the west bank. Hooded Mergansers Red-Breasted Mergansers (mixed in wwith the Hooded Mergansers) Mallards Canada Geese including Richardson's, Lesser, Greater, Dusky, and Cackling Buffleheads 1 pair of Ruddy Ducks 1 pair of Northern Pintals (mixed in with a flock of Mallards on the spillway pond) 1 pair of Northern Shovellers (mixed in with a flock of Mallards below the spillway) A large flock of gulls which turned out to be all Ring-Billed Gulls but there were adults and second winter in that flock. Northern Cardinal White Breasted Nuthatch A pair of Swamp Sparrows I saw a very large flock of Canada Geese in the area immediately above the Smothers Road causeway, In that flock I saw two collard geese. One of those looked like he may have been a dusky goose, the other possibly a cackling goose or maybe even an Aleutian Goose. There was a goose in the flock that looked like a hybrid Canada Goose-Graylag goose. He had orange legs and an orange bill with some white on his face but also son black spots. I thought I saw a goose with red on it in the flock. It turned out to be a wounded Greater Canada Goose. It was wounded right at the top of the leg with blood staining the white feathers. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]