I took a brief visit to Hoover Reservoir yesterday to check out the lake for anything interesting that might have blown in with the winds on Saturday. I stopped at Oxbow and the boardwalk, and saw loads of cormorants and gulls. I noted two large rafts of ducks way out in the middle of the reservoir - too far away to ID for sure, but they were probably Ring-necked Ducks and Scaup. I also had two Red-breasted Mergansers, 11 Horned Grebes, about 20 Great Blue Herons (seem to be roosting in the woods east of the Osprey platform), and two Common Loons. No Ancient Murrelets though - you have to go to the Upper Peninsula for that one. Andrew R. Sewell, MS, RPA Principal Investigator Historical/Industrial Archaeology Hardlines Design Company 4608 Indianola Avenue Columbus, Ohio 43214 ph. (614)-784-8733 fax (614)-784-9336 _____ This mailbox protected from junk email by MailFrontier Desktop from MailFrontier, Inc. http://info.mailfrontier.com ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. 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]