Hi Tom, Very likely. The sound of Nighthawks over collegetown (and downtown Ithaca) is a fond memory of summer from the sixties and seventies, when they still bred here.
Migrants seem to linger here for a few days, just long enough to make me wonder if they might take it up again some year. -Geo > On May 12, 2018, at 11:16 PM, Tom Hoebbel <tomhoeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Holly and I are pretty sure we heard a common nighthawk on Oak St, above the > gorge in Collegetown about 10 PM. Are they likely to be heard here at this > time of year? Is there something else it may have been that's call is similar? > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Thomas Hoebbel Photo~Video > www.TH-Photo.com > 607-539-6121 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
