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Nighthawks (was: From Bob Augustine)

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Mon, 22 Aug 2011 06:31:18 -0400

Hi --

To add to Bob's post about Nighthawks, during the 1980s Maryland 
Breeding Bird Altlas project, I found breeding Nighthawks in a couple of 
my blocks including some breeding on the roof of Wheaton Plaza! You 
could go there in the summer in the evening and hear them calling.

I doubt if any breed in this area (Wheaton/Silver Spring) now although 
there are plenty of flat, graveled roofs. There appears to have been, in
the 
last decade or two, a reduction in the number of night-flying insects -- we 
get very few moths at our lights now, for example -- although I am not sure 
if this has been quantified. Just an observation -- 

Gail Mackiernan
Colesville, MD

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