Thoreau Lake had the usual many geese, mallards and black ducks, with several ring-necked ducks, couple of widgeon, one red-head pair, several lesser scaup (I think). In the trek to the lake, two Cooper hawks flew overhead. Hoover was pretty empty until I went to Galena. The area north of the bridge had a large group of ring-necked ducks. And off the end of the boardwalk, I saw several pintails, widgeons, ring-necked ducks among the numerous geese. I walked to the end of the Oxbow lane, and saw more of the above, but also at least one Herring gull and a large raft (if that is the word) of snow geese--maybe 75 and about 1/3 blue phase. Never had seen that before at Hoover. Dale Brubeck Worthington ______________________________________________________________________ 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]