Since we had a break from the rain and the sun actualy came out, I decided to do some birding at Hoover today. At various stops from the dam up to the boardwalk I saw: American Coots Canada Geese Pie-Billed Grebes Horned Grebes Eared Grebe Common Loons Common Mergansers Hooded Mergansers Red-Breasted Mergansers Ruddy Ducks Mallards Buffleheads Lesser Scaups Redhead Northern Shovellers Ring-Billed Gulls Killdeer House Sparrows Downy Woodpeckers Red-Bellied Woodpecker Red-Headed Woodpecker American Crows American Robins Carolina Chickadees Carolina Wren Blue Jays Mourning Doves Rock Pigeons Northern Cardinal Turkey Vulture Al La Sala Columbus, 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]