On this cool, breezy eve inwards Columbia, Missouri, I went out to the dorsum deck for a aeroplane count. After spending an sixty minutes inwards the lounge chair, I had seen a fair diversity of birds, all mutual summertime residents inwards our area.
As dusk progressed, I was almost to larn within when a flock of mutual nighthawks appeared inwards the darkening sky; numbering 32, they were drifting to the SSE. To my delight, this initial flock was followed past times 2 more, all heading the same direction; the full count for all 3 flocks was 84.
Though large flocks of migrating nighthawks are non odd inwards belatedly August together with early on September, this evening's spectacle, unexpected together with almost missed, was particularly inspiring every bit the soundless travelers passed overhead. They are on their means to South America, ever leaving good ahead of the tumble chill; dissimilar some insectivores (e.g. chimney swifts), which stick unopen to until mid October, nighthawks create non gamble whatsoever depletion of their prey (flying insects). Feeding on the wing every bit they migrate, they volition non provide to the Heartland until early on May.
As dusk progressed, I was almost to larn within when a flock of mutual nighthawks appeared inwards the darkening sky; numbering 32, they were drifting to the SSE. To my delight, this initial flock was followed past times 2 more, all heading the same direction; the full count for all 3 flocks was 84.
Though large flocks of migrating nighthawks are non odd inwards belatedly August together with early on September, this evening's spectacle, unexpected together with almost missed, was particularly inspiring every bit the soundless travelers passed overhead. They are on their means to South America, ever leaving good ahead of the tumble chill; dissimilar some insectivores (e.g. chimney swifts), which stick unopen to until mid October, nighthawks create non gamble whatsoever depletion of their prey (flying insects). Feeding on the wing every bit they migrate, they volition non provide to the Heartland until early on May.
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