I stopped by this afternoon, and this open-water area below the dam is still the best spot around on the east side of Columbus for waterfowl. Numbers were not quite as spectacular as last week, but diversity may even be better. Included in the waterbirds below the dam were Canada Geese - 20 Mallard - 120 Black Duck - 6 N.Shoveler - 15 Gadwall - 3 American Wigeon - 8 Bufflehead - 7 Common Goldeneye - 2 Common Merganser - 1 male Red-br.Mergansers - 4 males Hooded Merganser - 16+ Common Loon - 1 feeding in spillway pool Herring Gull - 2 Ring-billed Gull - 15 The nearby Hoover Nature Trail presented a wintry landscape, but still had 5 E.Bluebirds, 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler, and 1 Pileated Woodpecker, along with the usual numbers of chickadees, titmice, & other woodpeckers. Ground-feeding sparrows & juncos were virtually absent, given the extensive snow cover here ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]