A quick trip to the southern end of this reservoir northeast of Columbus found whitecaps but few birds.  Water level is quite low now, but the southern sandflats off Walnut St. and Area E held only around 200 Ring-billed Gulls.  There was also a steady stream of gulls passing south overhead, again all Ring-billed.  The only waterfowl were small #s of the expected Mallards & Geese.  Wind-sheltered areas below Hoover dam and along the Hoover Nature Trail held a few migrants, but nothing out of the ordinary.  A patch of fruiting honeysuckle bushes below the dam had accumulated a mixed flock of Robins & Cedar waxwings, plus 12 Yellow-rumps.  The woods edging the prairie along the Nature Trail had a good assortment of kinglets, creepers, Winter Wren, and Black-thr.Green warbler mixed in with the usual chickadee-titmice flock.

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