Per an extensive email exchange a week or two ago, several people have noted an apparent scarcity of Common Nighthawks, while others have observed them quite frequently. After the original set of posts I started paying closer attention to one of my favorite sounds of summer, the nighthawks in the evening. I've seen them virtually every evening I've been out here in Columbus - whether it is the Grandview area (around Grandview and 5th) or the Short North (think High and 3rd through 5th) or further east (think of the buildings and lights of Easton or of Gahanna). It makes one wonder if perhaps the earlier dry weather kept the bug population down, and made for less Nighthawk activity in some areas. But the bugs seem to be back, and my own experience is that the Nighthawks appear to be dining in style! Howard Mueller Columbus, OH I have been looking all summer in vain, but saw my first Not-so-Common Nighthawk at 5:45 a.m. today over Riverside Hospital in Columbus. ______________________________________________________________________ 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] Howard Mueller Phone: 415-987-3106 (cell) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]