Common Nighthawk
“On September 14, while passing through Gull Crest at twilight, I came across a Common Nighthawk foraging on the wing above the giant compost piles.”
Through the year
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Year by year
Columns that mention it each year.
In his words
All 9 passages, oldest first.
A common nighthawk was seen around sunset migrating south across the Spurwink Trail Greenbelt property along Scarborough Marsh.
On June 2 around dusk I heard what I thought was the buzzy peent call of a American Woodcock approaching overhead; turned out to be a Common Nighthawk.
On September 9 four Common Nighthawks were spotted hunting high above our house.
Additional notes from the field - On May 22 and June 1 I was briefly fooled by the buzzy American Woodcock-like nasal cry of Common Nighthawks overhead.
Just before dark I caught a glimpse of a Common Nighthawk roaming the skies over the treetops above our house and seconds later, I heard what sounded at first like a muffled foghorn, but which I shortly determined to be a Great-horned Owl at significant distance.
May 24 - At dusk four Common Nighthawks gracefully foraging over the Pond Cove brook corridor section of Robinson Woods.
And just before sunset I caught a glimpse of a Common Nighthawk roaming the skies over the treetops above our house.
On June 4 around dusk in my yard I heard what I thought was the buzzy peent call of a American Woodcock approaching overhead – turned out to be a Common Nighthawk.
On September 14, while passing through Gull Crest at twilight, I came across a Common Nighthawk foraging on the wing above the giant compost piles.