Hello Marcus and tweeters.

Good sighting for Tacoma,this should be further checked out.
In ealier years proable three or so we had this birds comming over our house
here in fircrest.If you went to The Cheney Stadium to watch the night
games,you could see them flying around there
We found a dead Nighthawk on the Costa Rd near Bottle beach on the 16th.

Ruth Sullivan
Tacoma
----- Original Message -----
From: <Marcus.D.Roening at gsk.com>
To: <tweeters at u.washington.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2002 7:21 AM
Subject: Common Nighthawk in Tacoma


> Hi Tweets,
>
> On July 16th, 2002 at about 8:00pm, my wife was enjoying the last rays of
> the sun and heard a Common Nighthawk fly over our house on the North End
of
> Tacoma. Since we had heard another Common Nighthawk on July 8th, at about
> the same time in the evening, we're wondering if they are starting to
> migrate south or if they may be breeding down on the tideflats. The bird
> was flying from the tideflat area in the direction of the Narrow's Bridge.
>
> Heather, Bruce LaBar and I observed several Common Nighthawks on July the
> 4th, 2000 over the North End of Tacoma, flying in the same general
> direction, but it was in the late afternnon.
>
> A neat bird to have on an urban yard list.
>
> Marcus Roening
> Tacoma, WA
> marcus.d.roening at gsk.com
>
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