Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:05:24 -0400 Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: "Hilton, Rob" Subject: Common Nighthawk in downtown Silver Spring MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi,=20 Last night around 8:30 pm or so, as we were walking around downtown Silver Spring, Lisa and I saw one Common Nighthawk fly around a street lamp but so low that at one point that it was under the top of the structure and maybe only (?two or) three feet from our faces. It made not a sound, and silently disappeared toward Fenton Street. Though it was only one bird, it was the closest either one of us has ever been to a nighthawk, and was almost a magical moment. =20 Rob Hilton rhilton@csa.com Bethesda, Md.=20 ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================