Date: 8/28/24 10:22 am From: SCOTT WEIDENSAUL <000001343b2dd726-dmarc-request...> Subject: Re: Koch property, Northampton County
And New Hampshire birders thought it was a big deal last September when 8,600 nighthawks were counted in less than two hours one evening along the Pemigewasset River. (Well, it was a big deal, at least for New England.)
For all the destruction wrought by Canadian wildfires, I expect they have created a lot more open, bare-soil nesting habitat up north for the species.
Scott Weidensaul
Milton, NH (formerly Schuylkill Co.)
> On Aug 28, 2024, at 12:14 PM, Nick Bolgiano <nickbolgiano...> wrote:
>
> Arlene's posts from the farm are always informative and appreciated.
>
> On Monday, at the Hawk Ridge hawk watch in Duluth, MN, 12,000 C. Nighthawks
> were counted during the hawk watch period and an additional 23,000 were
> tallied after 5 p.m., for a total of 35,000 on the day. Apparently,
> nighthawks are doing OK in some places.
>
> Sean McLaughlin, from Huntingdon Co. and the 2021 hawk watch counter at
> Tussey Mt, PA, is the lead counter at Hawk Ridge this season.
>
> Nick Bolgiano
> State College
>
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2024 at 12:02 PM DAVID KOCH <
> <0000012d74227426-dmarc-request...> wrote:
>
>> For the past three nights I've been looking for nighthawks. But the count
>> so far is dragonflies - 5; nighthawks - 0. In past years I've seen lots of
>> them but their numbers have been dropping. So we'll see what happens. I
>> recently saw a report of 1400 of them at a site in New Hampshire. although
>> it was unclear if that was for one night or several. But while I tanked on
>> nighthawks, the backyard was really busy. It was hot and the sunlight on a
>> big mulberry tree had flycatchers and warblers constantly moving around in
>> it or sparring with each other. Flycatchers see were willow,
>> yellow-bellied, olive-sided, and eastern wood pewee. Warblers were several
>> redstarts, a yellow warbler, a yellow-rumped warbler, a Tennessee, and a
>> magnolia. When the sun went down over the far western hills around 7 pm
>> almost all the activity stopped. But I can't complain about not seeing
>> nighthawks.
>> Arlene Koch Easton, PA Northampton County <davilene...>
>>
