Greetings,

Can anyone confirm for me whether COMMON NIGHTHAWKS might be in the area by
now or not? My reason for asking is that last night around 9:00pm I heard
what really sounded like one to me coming from a creek ravine at the edge of
our property. The call was coming once about every 2-3 minutes from
somewhere up in some alder trees from best I could tell. I was unable to
locate anything with a flashlight. At first I thought I was hearing our
resident BARN OWL, but the call was much shorter in length and not near as
raspy/hissy as the BARN OWL call I am familiar with. Thus, I am about 99%
certain I was holding a conversation with a COMMON NIGHTHAWK :-)

Thanks for any confirmation help you might offer!
Alan Bauer
Fall City, WA
v-alanba at microsoft.com