Date: 2/12/26 9:51 pm From: Christopher Hayward via groups.io <p_t_nymph...> Subject: [pen-bird] Common Poorwill, Gazos Creek Road, 2/12/2026
Hi All,
This evening whilst driving slowly up Gazos Creek Road listening for Owls I came across a Common Poorwill sitting on the road, it was just getting dark but I had decent looks as it sat in my low beam headlights. Each time a car came by it would flush but show back up on the road a few minutes later. once it got completely dark I lost it.
This was about half a mile down from the Cloverdale Road intersection.
Interestingly the first Poorwill I saw in the county was a bird found by Garth Harwood right around this date in the same general area, so perhaps a good time to cruise the back roads looking for this species.
