This morning Linda and I surveyed several sections of the Hoover Nature Preserve for the Ohio Winter Bird Survey. Overall activity was moderate but we managed to locate 36 species . Species observed included: Snow Goose (Blue Morf) 1 Canada Goose 500+ Mute Swan 4 American Black Duck 42 Mallard 237 Northern Pintail 31 Lesser Scaup 66 Common Goldeneye 5 Hooded Merganser 57 Red-breasted Merganser 6 Cooper’s Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 4 American Kestrel 5 Ring-billed Gull 200+ Mourning Dove 22 Red-bellied Woodpecker 13 Downy Woodpecker 20 Northern Flicker 3 Blue Jay 33 American Crow 70 Horned Lark 23 Carolina Chickadee 41 Tufted Titmouse 24 White-breasted Nuthatch 15 Carolina Wren 6 American Robin 18 Northern Mockingbird 5 European Starling 300+ American Tree Sparrow 14 Song Sparrow 21 White-throated Sparrow 13 Dark-eyed Junco 18 Northern Cardinal 29 House Finch 4 American Goldfinch 9 House Sparrow 6 Charlie Bombaci Delorme 58 C (3) **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]