Tweets,

I took a short break this morning at about 10:00 and walked out of my office
at the corner of 10th and Washington in downtown Olympia. At one point I
happened to look up and see a very dark, approx. crow-sized form with a small
head, long, squared-off tail, and long, sharply tapered wings zoom by, about
10m off the ground, using rapid, shallow wingbeats. It eventually landed in
the top of an evergreen tree, too far for me to make out any details.

Could this have been a nighthawk? I've never identified one before. What
else could it have been?

Nick Pharris
Olympia, WA
NJPharris at aol.com