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[birdky] Re: Common Nighthawks
- From: "Van and Lin Towler II" <vt2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 20:24:34 -0400
I took a long horseback ride this afternoon, I saw approx. 60-70 wild turkey
feeding in a field that had been hay raked and baled about 3 weeks ago, 2 wood
ducks, 2 carolina wrens, a brown creeper, bluebirds, kingfisher, great blue
heron, 10-12 american black ducks in flight, and the best.... on the way home
(about 6 pm) in a newly mowed field, at the corner of rt 854 and Jacks Fork
Road, there were approx 100 chimney swifts and over 100 common nighthawks. It
had been very overcast all day and cool for this time of year (which was why it
was a great day to take a long ride) it was beginning to get a little bit of a
light fog, and the aerial displays were fascinating! The nighthawks seemed to
be the bottom layer, and the chimney swifts took a higher level.
On a very sad note, yesterday, I finally saw up close and personal, a screech
owl, it was so beautiful. Unfortunately, it was foggy and in the middle of the
road when I was coming home from work last night at dusk, I drove over top of
it, and tumbled it. It was still alive, and I put it in a box with a thick
cover over top. I was hoping it was just stunned, but he died sometime during
the night. I feel so bvery bad about causing the death of this beautiful bird.
Lin Towler
Ashland, KY
Boyd County
vt2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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