Ray Korpi wrote:

>Nighthawks often move in big flocks through the Midwest as well. One day
>at soccer practice in Omaha, when I was about twelve, we had a flock of
>around a thousand go over. I have never seen a flock that big again, but
>did occasionally see flocks from 50-100.

Actually, I have seen large concentrations, probably 50-100, a few times in
fall in eastern Washington as well, although never west of the mountains.
Sometimes nighthawks (like the Western Kingbirds we wrote about earlier)
seem attracted to power stations; I've seen dozens of them sitting on the
wires around such a station in Grant Co. in late summer.

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