Starting to move in SW Ohio too, saw the first of the fall migration with ~6
or so feeding over the yard this evening.  I don't see nearly the amount I
used to when I was a kid.

Don Morse Jr.
New Richmond, OH
http://donaldthebirder.blogspot.com/

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:11 PM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I've been sitting around the house getting cabin fever as I have had a
> sinus infection [the sinuses are winning] and tonight I got some relief. The
> window at my desk looks out onto the field where I installed a meager
> Bluebird trial. Some quick motion caught my eye and I looked out to see a
> nice number of Common Nighthawks flitting over the field and some going
> right past the window. These were the first nighthawks I've seen this year
> and the most that I've seen together for several years. At our old house we
> used to see them on a regular basis and during the fall migration it was not
> unusual to have a few nights with 50 to 100 overhead. I once had a
> non-birding neighbor call to ask if Alfred Hitchcock's birds were on the
> loose. After heart surgery, ergo, don't go near a snow shovel, we sold the
> house and moved into a condo. We've missed our backyard which was landscaped
> to attract birds but now I'm minutes away from my Prothonotary Warbler Nest
> Box Trail rather than 10 miles
>  away. There is always a silver lining if we look for it. Now if I could
> find a way to have 250 Prothonotary nets boxes and 16 Bluebird nest boxes
> self clear I would have it made.
>
>
>
> Charlie Bombaci
>
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