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Reply To: | Lloyd R. Bunten |
Date: | Mon, 7 Jul 2008 09:26:06 -0400 |
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Although I haven't done it in several years I used to
occasionally camp for a night on Mt Gilman and always had
Common Nighthawks booming after dark and a wonderful dawn
chorus the next morning.
Lloyd
---Julie Hart <[log in to unmask]> wrote ---
I was conducting some playbacks for Bicknell's Thrush on
Mt Cardigan
(Canaan, NH) last night for Mountain Birdwatch and was
surprised to find
two Common Nighthawks up there. I first heard them at
8:26pm and heard
them until a little after 9:30pm when I was out of earshot
descending
the mountain. They were peenting frequently and one of
them did a couple
of booms. I am not sure if they were booming at me or in
display. It
seems late for courtship, but they really didn't seem that
disturbed by
my presence, and one boom I heard after I had descended
into the trees
and was nowhere in sight. They seemed to be a pair as they
were flying
in a close formation at times and almost seemed to be
playing with each
other. It seemed odd to see them on a mountaintop, but
aside from that
it was appropriate habitat and I had the impression that
they were
breeding up there. Has anyone else ever observed them
breeding on a
rocky mountain summit before?
No Bicknell's responded to the playback, but there were a
lot of
Swainson's Thrushes, Blackpolls, Yellow-rumpeds, Juncos,
and
White-throated Sparrows, plus a couple of ravens--the
usual
high-elevation suite. I was treated to a miraculous
display of fireworks
and sat on the summit for a while trying to count all the
lights, at
least 20 sets of fireworks within sight! Hiking down I
marveled in the
mica sparkling in the beam of my headlamp and saw a
friendly moose on
the drive down the mountain road. It wouldn't move out of
the road so I
rolled past and could have reached out to pet it, but
decided against
that idea.
-Julie
PS If you plan an evening hike on Cardigan, check the
Canaan Speedway
schedule beforehand. It's quite loud and dampens the
experience.
--
Julie Hart
Mountain Birdwatch Coordinator
Vermont Center for Ecostudies
PO Box 420 Norwich, VT 05055
802-649-1431 x 6
http://www.vtecostudies.org/MBW/
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