Date: 5/28/26 4:22 pm From: Charlie Nims <charlie.nims...> Subject: [NHBirds] Nice Nightjar Night
Last night, I joined Jane Rice to do her 10 stop Freedom Whip-poor-will Survey route. It turned out to be a nice night for nightjars! And, it started off with a good omen: we met at the Hobbs parking lot in West Ossipee (not part of the route) where we had 2 peenting Common Nighthawks which we were also able to see circling together.
The route, which covers much of the eastern part of Ossipee Lake, starts along Ossipee Lake Rd. at a TNC property where we again had both nightjars. All-in-all, we had 12 Eastern Whip-poor-wills, 4 Common Nighthawks, 2 calling Common Loons and a Barred Owl. Interestingly, at Freedom Town Forest, we had neither nightjar . . . I think primarily due to the overwhelming chorus of frogs!! My guess is that if we had gone out to the airstrip, we would have had at least EWPW’s with a good chance of CONI and perhaps American Woodcock. C’est la vie, at least it is good to know the frogs (guessing a lot of spring peepers) seem to be in good shape.
Sometime—weather dependent—I will do my survey route, Madison, which is just to the north.
