Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 08:07:54 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Paul Woodward Subject: Re: Confused Nighthawks? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Don, This is very common behavior for Common Nighthawks during fall migration especially in the absence of strong frontal systems. Some people think they go north early in the evening then circle back south later. This may have happened at my watch site in Fairfax City last night where we had 11 birds flying very high from 1750-1830. Then near sundown I had a total of 14 nighthawks flying low to the south. I think the other reason nighthawks move in other directions than south is that they are going to nocturnal feeding areas e.g. lighted ballfields, parking lots, office buildings. Paul Woodward Fairfax City, VA 22032 grackling@worldnet.att.net ----- Original Message ----- From: Don Burggraf To: Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 7:40 AM Subject: [MDOSPREY] Confused Nighthawks? > Hi, all. > > Tuesday evening on a walk I saw two groups of Common Nighthawks (9 and 5) > and both groups were flying North. Last evening's walk produced one more > CONI, also flying North. > > Are these Nighthawks getting their seasons mixed up? Or perhaps we are in > for a very mild winter? > > Don Burggraf > Baltimore > dburggraf@hotmail.com > > > > >From: Bonnie Ott > >Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding > >To: MDOSPREY@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM > >Subject: [MDOSPREY] Ho Co (Nigthawks) > >Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 06:57:43 -0400 > > > > Wednesday evening I had two Common Nighthawks flyover. One Laughing > >Gull at 9:00 a.m. flying low. There were "speck" gulls moving around in the > >afternoon. One Red-Tail, Red-Shoulder and Coopers hawk at very high > >altitudes. > > > >Bonnie Ott > >Ellicott city,Howard County > >bonnie1163@home.com > > > >======================================================================To > >leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > >with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > >====================================================================== > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > ======================================================================= > To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com > with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey > ======================================================================= > ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================