September 4, between 6:30 and 7:00 PM, in Fairlawn, Summit County 44333, I observed the largest group of nighthawks yet this year: 3. On three occasions while walking through the neighborhood west of Fort Island Park, I saw 3 nighthawks circling together. It is remotely possible that they were 6 or even 9 individuals, but more probable that the same group ranged more widely and came into view in another place later. For a moment I thought I had spotted a fourth, but it flew too directly, and soon it became clear it was a larger bird - a ring-billed gull. Dr. Bob Barrett Department of Geosciences at University of Akron now rebranded as "Ohio's Polytechnic University" Teaching Fall Semester 2015: Introduction to Geography World Civilizations: Latin America ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]