The 2009 Hoover Reservoir Christmas Bird Count 2009 marked the 54th 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, Westerville and portions of Southern Delaware County. Highlights for the 2009 count included 1 new species, Sandhill Crane; establishing new highs for 3 species; and tying the high for 2 species. Our final count was 77 species. The 2010 Hoover Reservoir Christmas Bird Count will be held Saturday, December 18, 2010. Charlie Bombaci, Compiler Hoover Reservoir CBC ================== The species recorded were as follows: 4 Common Loon 2 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Horned Grebe 13 Great Blue Heron 2,147 Canada Geese 2 Green-winged Teal 90 American Black Duck 728 Mallard 5 Northern Pintail 3 Northern Shoveler 2 American Wigeon 5 Lesser Scaup 6 Common Goldeneye 3 Bufflehead 153 Hooded Merganser 303 Ruddy Duck 5 Bald Eagle 1 Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 15 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 25 Red-tailed Hawk 7 American Kestrel 9 Wild Turkey 3 Sandhill Crane 2 Killdeer 47 Bonaparte's Gull 1,248 Ring-billed Gull 13 Herring Gull 152 Rock Pigeon 126 Mourning Dove 2 Great Horned Owl 4 Barred Owl 2 Belted Kingfisher 5 Red-headed Woodpecker 103 Red-bellied Woodpecker 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 111 Downy Woodpecker 5 Hairy Woodpecker 40 Northern Flicker 8 Pileated Woodpecker 239 Blue Jay 253 American Crow 107 Horned Lark 325 Carolina Chickadee 193 Tufted Titmouse 6 Red-breasted Nuthatch 99 White-breasted Nuthatch 11 Brown Creeper 30 Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 4 Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 105 Eastern Bluebird 2 Hermit Thrush 456 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 16 Northern Mockingbird 1,998 European Starling 14 Cedar Waxwing 13 Yellow-rumped Warbler 337 Northern Cardinal 1 Eastern Towhee 53 American Tree Sparrow 1 Chipping Sparrow 1 Fox Sparrow 36 Song Sparrow 2 Swamp Sparrow 148 White-throated Sparrow 1 White-crowned Sparrow 249 Dark-eyed Junco 34 Red-winged Blackbird 164 House Finch 1 Pine Siskin 294 American Goldfinch 604 House Sparrow 11,209 Individuals 77 Species 15 Teams in the field 34 Participants in the field 10 Feeder Watchers Count Week: Double-crested Cormorant, Redhead, Canvasback and Ring-necked Duck. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]