I thought it would be good to start this year off with some birding and get a solid start on a January 100 list. Here is all what I was able to find: Hoover Dam Mallard Northern Shoveler American Wigeon (nearly a dozen or more) Gadwall Ring-billed Gull Canada Goose Bufflehead (group of three right in the spillway) Clearing and forest edge near dam Caroline Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Downy Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker White-breasted Nuthatch White-throated Sparrow Eastern Bluebird Cooper's Hawk (or perhaps Sharp Shinned Hawk, it was very far away) Northern Cardinal American Robin House Finch Length of the reservoir, including a stop at Oxbow Island Hooded Merganser (a large group just past Smothers Road) Common Goldeneye Ruddy Duck American Crow European Starling Hoover Meadows Red-headed Woodpecker Eastern Towhee Blue Jay ... so my total thus far is 27 (+1 for the House Sparrows in my front yard this morning) birds. Good birding to everyone else out there. Sincerely, Adam Eugene Cirone (330) 257-9533 [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]