Subject: [Tweeters] Nighthawk in West Seattle
Date: Jun 12 09:06:30 2012
From: Larry Schwitters - leschwitters at me.com


Good question Stewart. Will be interesting to see if anyone has
anything other than speculation. The genus is apparently in a NA wide
decline perhaps due to a corresponding decline in its insect prey.

Are there any Nighthawks still around Nighthawk, Washington? There
were lots the one time I was there in the early 1980s. Is there still
a Nighthawk, Washington?

For Seattle, I want to blame the crows, but I guess thats just my
speculation.

Larry

Larry Schwitters-Issaquah
leschwitters at me.com

Project Coordination
Audubon Vaux's Happening

vauxshappening.org

On Jun 12, 2012, at 8:31 AM, Stewart Wechsler wrote:

> Over the past 12 years, about once in 3 or 4 years I hear and see a
> Nighthawk passing through West Seattle during their last of the spring
> season migration. Last night I was pleased to hear and see one of
> these historic Seattle birds buzzing and twisting in flight (above
> California Av SW and SW Findlay St.) Do people remember the
> Nighthawks on summer nights at Greenlake decades ago? What were the
> factors that caused them to disappear from Seattle as breeding birds?
> (I know we had this discussion some years ago.)
>
> -Stewart Wechsler
> http://www.stewardshipadventures.com/
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