Had the good fortune of witnessing some intriguing breeding behavior this weekend, not sure how many folks get to see it or notice it when they do. Around dusk I saw nighthawks "peenting" up in the sky over town and then flying far up and swooping back down to almost the top of a flat-topped building where rocketed back up again accompanied by a 'roar' of the primaries as it broke the dive. Apparently over a female on the roof top. It is an amazing sound and carries quite a distance. Bent's life histories has great accounts of this behavior in its volume 1 on cuckoos, goatsuckers, hummingbirds and their allies. Keep your eyes and hears open out there and don't forget to send in that breeding behavior to Aaron Boone. Pete ********************************************************************* Pete Whan Dir. of Community-based Conservation The Nature Conservancy Edge of Appalachia Preserve 3223 Waggoner Riffle Rd. West Union, OH 45693 Ph. 937-544-2188 fax same email [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]