Activity Friday, March 18, 2011, at the northern end of Hoover Reservoir including Area M/N, Wiese Road and Dustin Road in Galena. Several very good rafts of waterfowl including one stretching almost a mile along the west shore. Land species listed were seen in Area N. Spotting scope recommended for viewing waterfowl. Common Loon Pied-billed Grebe Horned Grebe Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Redhead Canvasback Ring-necked Duck Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Hooded Merganser Red-breasted Merganser Ruddy Duck Osprey Bald Eagle Red-tailed Hawk American Coot American Woodcock Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Mourning Dove Eastern Screech-Owl Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren American Robin European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch American Goldfinch Charlie Bombaci Hoover Nature Preserve ______________________________________________________________________ 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]