I was able to spend a few hours birding around Hoover Reservoir this afternoon. It was really cold and windy--felt almost like the dead of winter, but there were some good birds around. Highlights: Oxbow: American Tree Sparrow (1) Purple Finch (1) Red-breasted Merganser (2) Hooded Merganser (8) Boardwalk/Weise Rd: Green-winged Teal (9) Greater Yellowlegs (3) Killdeer (~20) Unidentified, distant shorebirds (~30, prob. mostly Killdeer, but some smaller than Killdeer, a couple larger than Killdeer) American White Pelican (1) American Pipit (15) Black Vulture (1) Northern Harrier (1) Bonaparte's Gull (~100) Misc: Ruddy Duck (8) near dam Cedar Waxwing (~20) north of Oxbow along Old 3-C Hwy Take care, Nate Nye Hilliard, 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]