Hello OHbirders, Hoover Reservoir was booming with waterfowl today. Chloe Hamrick and I recorded 19 species in 2 hours this afternoon. List below with details: Snow Goose 1- one young bird, molting into adult plumage- mostly white, with some gray on the back and neck, south of Old 3C (Eqyptian/Graylag domestic goose thing- north of the dam) Cackling Goose 4- south of Old 3C Canada Goose 1600- ~1200 south of Old 3C, others scattered Mute Swan 1- north of Old 3C Tundra Swan 1- south of Old 3C, apparently down from 22 last week according to a land owner Wood Duck 2- male and female south of Old 3C Gadwall 3- 1 male and 2 females below the dam American Wigeon 8- below the dam American Black Duck 25- scattered Mallard 70- scattered Northern Shoveler 60- ~15 below the dam and 45 south of Old 3C Northern Pintail 1- male south of Old 3C Green-winged Teal 1- female below the dam Bufflehead 1- female south of Old 3C Common Goldeneye 8- south of Old 3C Hooded Merganser 45- scattered Common Merganser 1- female south of Old 3C Red-breasted Merganser 1- female north of the dam Ruddy Duck 2- male and female south of Old 3C Others: Red-shouldered Hawk 1- south of Old 3C Herring Gull 2- south of Old 3C Good birding, Sean --- Sean Williams, '11 Undergraduate of Ornithology of Dr. Jed Burtt Ohio Wesleyan University HWCC 724 Delaware, OH 43015 617-470-4094 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]