While setting up late this afternoon and early evening for tomorrow's Upper Arlington Labor Day Arts Festival at Tremont and Northam Roads in northwest Columbus, we too were thrilled with the show the Common Nighthawks were putting on. We commented on the way out of the grounds that we had never seen so many dragonflies, literally hundreds! Around 6, we headed up Tremont and Kenny Roads toward Henderson and Bethel Roads when we began to encounter first small, scattered groups of the birds, then groups of over 100. Probably at least 350 Common Nighthawks in total, seemingly feeding and slowly working east toward the Olentangy River. Ironically, there were dragonflies all along the route, as well, swooping across the road in numbers. What a sight! It brought back memories of decades ago watching nearly uncountable numbers of Nighthawks over lakes in the Dayton area as they gathered in preparation for migration. Recently it seems that I only see and hear a pair or two all through the summer over and around the Crowne Plaza Shopping Center on Bethel Road at Dierker near where I live in northwest Columbus. Jim Glover My Impressions From Nature (614) 451-9423 http://www.jimgloverart.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]