The 2007 Hoover Reservoir Christmas Bird Count 2007 marked the 52nd Hoover Reservoir Christmas Bird Count. The Hoover Reservoir Circle includes Hoover Reservoir, Alum Creek Reservoir, Westerville Reservoir, areas along the Olentangy River, Highbanks Metro Park, Inniswood Metro Park, Sharon Woods Metro Park, Camp Mary Orton, Westerville and portions of Southern Delaware County. My intrepid teams had a challenging day as the snow began at about 11:30 AM and continued for most of the afternoon. They showed true grit as they covered the majority of the area and compiled a surprising list for the conditions. Several species were recorded that had not been found in the circle for years, whereas some species that were thought to be give-me’s were nowhere to be found. Highlights for the 2007 count included setting new record highs for 3 species and recording species not located for 51 and 24 years in the circle. Our final count was 75 species. The 2008 Hoover Reservoir Christmas Bird Count will be held Saturday, December 20, 2008. Charlie Bombaci, Compiler Hoover Reservoir CBC ================== The species recorded were as follows: 1 Common Loon 10 Horned Grebes 18 Great Blue Heron 2 Mute Swan 1,722 Canada Geese 1 Cackling Goose 2 Mute Swan 1 Wood Duck 14 Gadwall 88 American Black Duck 617 Mallard 4 Northern Shoveler 9 Northern Pintail 5 Green-winged Teal 11 Ring-necked Duck 1 Lesser Scaup 28 Bufflehead 2 Common Goldeneye 189 Hooded Merganser 7 Common Merganser 10 Red-breasted Merganser 24 Ruddy Duck 6 Bald Eagle 1 Northern Harrier 2 Sharp-shinned Hawk 8 Cooper's Hawk 21 Red-tailed Hawk 8 American Kestrel 18 Wild Turkey 1 American Coot 1 Killdeer 25 Bonaparte's Gull 507 Ring-billed Gull 78 Rock Pigeon 231 Mourning Dove 3 Great Horned Owl 4 Barred Owl 7 Belted Kingfisher 3 Red-headed Woodpecker 46 Red-bellied Woodpecker 70 Downy Woodpecker 16 Hairy Woodpecker 43 Northern Flicker 8 Pileated Woodpecker 150 Blue Jay 206 American Crow 181 Horned Lark 222 Carolina Chickadee 2 Black-capped Chickadee 117 Tufted Titmouse 51 White-breasted Nuthatch 9 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown Creeper 21 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 47 Eastern Bluebird 150 American Robin 2 Northern Mockingbird 600 European Starling 9 Yellow-rumped Warbler 233 Cedar Waxwing 97 American Tree Sparrow 3 Field Sparrow 57 Song Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 133 White-throated Sparrow 7 White-crowned Sparrow 162 Dark-eyed Junco 101 Lapland Longspurs 34 Snow Buntings 268 Northern Cardinal 1 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Purple Finch 272 House Finch 259 American Goldfinch 112 House Sparrow 7,383 Individuals 75 Species 14-17 Teams in the field 48 Participants 2 Feeder Watchers Count Week: Pied-billed Grebe, Black Vulture, Red-shouldered Hawk, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Fox Sparrow, and Winter Wren. **************************************See AOL's top rated recipes (http://food.aol.com/top-rated-recipes?NCID=aoltop00030000000004) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]