Today, I found my second Common Nighthawk nest. It was at the end of a logging spur road surrounded by a Weyerhaeuser clearcut within the Fort Lewis Rainier Training Area. Like the first Common Nighthawk nest I found (in Capitol Forest), this nest was surrounded by a clearcut and on top of a low ridge. It had coarse, small wood chunks all around it. There were two eggs and, if it wasn't for the presence of the eggs, it would be hard to notice even the barest of depression or "scrape."

The adult flushed when I walked within about 20 yards and I expected to find eggs or nestlings when I looked where she had left the ground.

Kelly McAllister
Olympia, Washington