I visited these 2 spots this afternoon (and actually stopped at the dam last evening) looking for early migrants, with little success, The dam & west spillway are open now at Hoover, so you can walk across the top & down into the meadow & riparian strip on the west side. Notables included:
Gulls & Tern - the big flock is early in the morning or late in the evening; last night I had 180+ Ring-billed and a few Herring, plus 1 Caspian Tern
Red-headed Woodpeckers - 2 were at Inniswood, and another was at the spillway
Barred OWls - 2 were calling back & forth in the woods at Inniswood after 5 PM
Flycatchers - the spillway had E.Kingbird, Great Crested & Phoebe, while Inniswood had 5 Peewees. This may be the migration peak for some of these insect-eaters.
Swallows - nothing but Barns here, but the spillway had 12-15
Gnatcatchers - probably past their migration peak, but still had 2 at the spillway, & 1 at Inniswood
Thrushes - nothing yet other than Robins
Warblers - hardly any, with none at the spillway, and Blackburnian & Blackpoll at Inniswood
Sparrows - nothing but the expected Songs; couldn't even find Chippings
Blackbirds - had a handful of Grackles at each spot; the only Redwings were 3 at the dam last night
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