Yesterday morning we still had a female or immature hummingbird visiting one of our feeders here on Flint Ridge Rd. in western Muskingum County. They have been few and far between the last few days, but still around. Jane and I decided to take a hike through someone else's patch of forest yesterday afternoon. So we headed over to Belmont County for a walk through Dysart Woods, a laboratory forest for Ohio University. Watching birds was not our focus, although I saw a few otherwise unidentified warblers flitting about, along with expected woodpecker and towhee calls I hear daily at home. The forest at Dysart Woods is magnificent, with many very large, old oaks, allowed to assume a fundamental state, with fallen giants allowed to rot naturally, cut only to clear the trail. On our way home, driving back on I-70, at 6:15 PM, we traversed the Mile 162 - Mile 161 section (a few miles east of Zanesville,) I estimated 70 nighthawks swooping around in the gathering evening. Given the limited time and narrow band of my observation (I was driving on the freeway) there could have been many more. It made me smile. Bob Evans Hopewell Township, Muskingum County ______________________________________________________________________ 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]