Last night (Sunday) Delia and I saw a Nighthawk flying over the road about 2/3 of the way from Westport to Aberdeen, WA at dusk. What a beautiful sight.

I know I sound like a broken record, but I’m terribly worried for the Nighthawk long term and disappointed that the local extinction of the Nighthawk in the tricounty basin here never got much attention. This is a bird whose only defense against Corvid nest predation is camouflage, which doesn’t work when Crows achieve the densities they do in urban and suburbanized areas.

I’d be interested if anyone has been seeing Nighthawks out there anywhere on the Westside and not reporting them to Tweeters?

--Ed Newbold, Tweeter by digest, residential Beacon Hill--where the Red Legged Frogs "sing"-- Seattle WA newboldwildlife at netscape.net



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