When I left my office this evening in west Longmont, I looked up to the familiar call of a Common Nighthawk. I was surprised to see 10 of them flying northward together.
Mike Blatchley Longmont On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:10 PM, David Waltman <[email protected]> wrote: > Had my first Common Nighthawk of the year in the foothills north of > Boulder. I took a look at eBird reports for the state and was shocked to > see most of the reports are of single birds, only occasionally 2 or more. > As others have commented, I have memories of large numbers in the past. > One of those memories is at the state capital building in Madison, > Wisconsin on a hot summer night where the floodlights on the building would > attract large numbers of bugs which in turn would attract large numbers of > nighthawks. What has happened to the nighthawk population? > David Waltman > Boulder > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Colorado Birds" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/cobirds/CAJQBZOu_-Pn0HPeFok%2ByUQTnOycce7w44ieT0k6wacUsSg5eBQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
