Midday, 1/6/2016 Hoover Dam spillway hooded mergansers--2-3 males American wigeons--6-7 males common goldeneye--1 female bufflehead--males and females Northern pintail-1 male gadwalls--quite a few in the shallow water beyond the main spillway mallards--numerous in both main spillway and in the shallow water beyond black ducks-fairly numerous in the shallow water ring-billed gulls--numerous herring gulls--at least 2 sitting on rocks in the shallow water Bonaparte's gull-- this one really stood out flying amidst the ring-bills great blue heron--1 We also visited 3 points on Alum Creek (dam spillway, New Galena boat launch, and Cheshire Rd boat launch) but all we saw were Canada geese except for 7-8 female hooded mergansers at Cheshire Rd. and some pigeons at the dam. Nancy Rudd and Bob Gold ______________________________________________________________________ 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]