Laura and I took libations out to the deck not long ago, and were tickled to see eight common nighthawks dashing around. Naturally, they were headed *south*, as they always seem to aim hereabouts. Even a few are nice these days; I recall recording "The highest twilight counts of fall movements usually come from late August-early September, and include a description of circle-soaring by 'at least several thousand' over the OSU campus 9/3/1968 (Mueller 1970), 3000+ on 9/3/1976 (Thomson 1983:206), and 2500 on 9/3/1992 (OC 16(1):21).' Sic transit chordeiles, Bill Whan ______________________________________________________________________ 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]