Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 16:15:37 EDT Reply-To: Maryland Birds & Birding Sender: Maryland Birds & Birding From: Joel Martin Subject: Nighthawks and Thunderstorms Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Monday evening between 7:20 and 7:40 I counted 17 Common Nighthawks moving over my yard in Catonsville, Baltimore County. Sometimes they came in 2's and 3's. There was also a lot of Chimney Swift activity. It just so happens that thunderstorms were moving from west to east, several miles north of my location. All of the nighthawks were moving from SW to NE, toward the storms. This is not the first time I've noticed sudden nighthawk activity in the vicinity of storms. I'm wondering if the unstable air creates some sort of welling up of flying insects that attracts the nightjars? Joel Martin Catonsville, MD jcdlmartin@aol.com ======================================================================= To leave the MDOsprey list, send e-mail to listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com with the following message in line 1: signoff mdosprey ======================================================================= =========================================================================