Subject: [Tweeters] RE: Magical Nighthawks
Date: Jun 3 13:20:16 2005
From: Kelly Cassidy - lostriver at completebbs.com


> Are there nighthawks around the Puget Sound area? How about Auburn?

Not many any more. Possibly the gulls and crows raiding the rooftop nests
were too much for them. No one knows for sure.

In Texas, I always associated spring with the reappearance of the
nighthawks. On the University of North Texas campus (in Denton, north of
Dallas), they swarmed around the lights and nested on the flat-roofed
buildings.

Speaking of birds and streetlights, I visited my mother in Texas about 5
years ago. On the drive from the airport at about 10 pm, we stopped at a
gas station a few miles west of Fort Worth. A flock of about 20
Scissor-tailed Flycatchers were perched in a tree next to one of the gas
station lights. They were hawking insects around the lights. The first
birds I saw on that trip to Texas. Cool.

Kelly
(Good old Texas, where the pavement floods across the prairie while the
inhabitants fantasize about unfenced range.)