Yes. The date is perfect, any hour is possible, and the east hill location seems natural to me - I will forever associate Nighthawks with the skies over collegetown, 45 years ago when they still bred in Ithaca.
Probably a number of birders will be staking out the city this evening, watching the parks, the flood control channel, etc. -Geo Kloppel On May 18, 2013, at 10:38 PM, "W. Larry Hymes" <[email protected]> wrote: > Yesterday morning around 9:00, as we were driving down State Street just > after turning off Mitchell St., Sara Jane and I had two birds fly over us > from right to left, which looked very much like COMMON NIGHTHAWK. We only > got a very brief look as they passed about 50' above the apartments being > built on the left side of the road and disappeared (and we couldn't stop). > They had long, pointed wings and slender bodies. Although only seen for a > very few seconds, we saw them make the jerky, bobbing movements that we > associate with this species. Would they be here now, and would they be > flying at that time of the morning? > > Larry > > -- > > ================================ > W. Larry Hymes > 120 Vine Street, Ithaca, NY 14850 > (H) 607-277-0759, [email protected] > ================================ > > > -- > > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES > http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm > > ARCHIVES: > 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html > 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds > 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html > > Please submit your observations to eBird: > http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ > > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
