AMAS Fall Program - Common Nighthawks
Date and Time:  Friday, October 26, 2018 at 7 pm
Location: UU Church in Springfield, VT (directions below)
Longtime residents of the Connecticut River Valley may remember the foraging flights of Common Nighthawks over our towns and villages. Sadly, few if any Common Nighthawks are seen routinely anymore on summer evenings.  The Vermont Breeding Bird Atlas conducted in 2003 to 2007 found a 91% loss from the 1976-1981 atlas. One of the reasons for the decline in breeding birds was “Loss of preferred nesting areas, especially gravel on flat-roofed buildings”.

Despite this grim news, all is not lost. Common Nighthawks may be seen as they migrate south through the Connecticut River Valley in August and September. What can we do to bring the Common Nighthawks back to the Connecticut River Valley as breeding birds? Come and hear NH Audubon’s Becky Suomala on October 26 to find out! A description of her talk follows. Some links with information about Common Nighthawks can be found under "Newsletter and Events” on the AMAS web page (www.amasvt.org <http://www.amasvt.org/>).
 
Join NH Audubon’s Becky Suomala for a program about the Common Nighthawk. Nighthawks are declining throughout their range and biologists do not know why. The dawn and dusk “peent” call of these birds was once a familiar sound in cities and towns throughout New Hampshire, where they nested on flat, pea stone gravel roofs and fed on insects attracted to city lights. New Hampshire Audubon initiated Project Nighthawk in 2007 to investigate the potential for restoring nesting nighthawks by placing simple gravel “nest patches” on flat rooftops. Find out what we’ve learned about patches and nesting nighthawks and see photos of nests and chicks. Becky Suomala is a biologist with NH Audubon and the coordinator of  Project Nightawk.
 
 
Driving Directions to UU Church located at 21 Fairground Road, Springfield, VT 05156
From I-91 and New Hampshire: Take Route 11 West into Springfield. Follow Route 11 through downtown and take a left at the shopping Plaza. Turn right onto Fairground Road right after Riverside Middle School . Church is on the right after Riverside Middle School.
From South and West: Route 11 East into Springfield. Turn left onto Fairground Road just before Riverside Middle School. Church is on the right after Riverside Middle School.
From North and West: Route 106 into Springfield. Turn right onto Route 11 West. Turn right onto Fairground Road right after Riverside Middle School. Church is on the right after Riverside Middle School.


The program is free and open to the public. Refreshments will follow.

Marianne and Michael Walsh
151 East Camp Hill Road
Weathersfield, VT 05156-9629

802-885-9420
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