Wednesday evening (8/22) about 6:30 I was in West Leb near the corner of Rt
10 and Rt 14 when I noticed  a couple of nighthawks flying in their unique
and erratic way just 100 ft or so above against some dramatically dark
skies. A couple quickly turned into three groups of 8 or so individuals,
and at one point in the brief encounter I tallied 14 in one spot above,
swarming their way south. Such fun birds to watch! It always feels like
seeing some sort of prehistoric creatures, like miniature pterodactyls.
I’ve only seen them in such numbers once before on their migration south.
About 40 total.
Mark Council
Fairlee
-- 
It's not by chance that the dark center of human eye, the pupil, is
actually an empty hole through which the world becomes known to us.
Likewise, in a spiritual sense, the I is the empty center through which we
see everything. It's revealing that such a threshold is called the pupil,
for it is only when we are emptied of all noise and dreams of ego that we
become truly teachable. -Mark Nepo


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