Starting to move in SW Ohio too, saw the first of the fall migration with ~6 or so feeding over the yard this evening. I don't see nearly the amount I used to when I was a kid. Don Morse Jr. New Richmond, OH http://donaldthebirder.blogspot.com/ On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:11 PM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I've been sitting around the house getting cabin fever as I have had a > sinus infection [the sinuses are winning] and tonight I got some relief. The > window at my desk looks out onto the field where I installed a meager > Bluebird trial. Some quick motion caught my eye and I looked out to see a > nice number of Common Nighthawks flitting over the field and some going > right past the window. These were the first nighthawks I've seen this year > and the most that I've seen together for several years. At our old house we > used to see them on a regular basis and during the fall migration it was not > unusual to have a few nights with 50 to 100 overhead. I once had a > non-birding neighbor call to ask if Alfred Hitchcock's birds were on the > loose. After heart surgery, ergo, don't go near a snow shovel, we sold the > house and moved into a condo. We've missed our backyard which was landscaped > to attract birds but now I'm minutes away from my Prothonotary Warbler Nest > Box Trail rather than 10 miles > away. There is always a silver lining if we look for it. Now if I could > find a way to have 250 Prothonotary nets boxes and 16 Bluebird nest boxes > self clear I would have it made. > > > > Charlie Bombaci > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] > ______________________________________________________________________ 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]