Beautiful weather the last three days with cool morning low temps of 47, 46, and 47 degrees F.
Saturday, September 9, 2017
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
That's something I've never seen before ...
September 3, 2017:
Outside doing evening chores, I saw a group of at least 20 night hawks, with the distinctive pointed wing shape similar to gulls, with a very visible white spot on the bottom of each wing, they were flying mostly above the field in between the house and the bee hives, and they remained for 30 minutes or so, feeding up above on insects. Again, the chickens and pigeons completely ignored them. Very interesting.
September 5, 2015:
I was outside just before dark this evening and saw something I don't recall ever seeing before. I saw a couple of large predator type birds flying about 100 feet over the pigeon / chicken / duck / rabbit / peacock area.
Uh oh I thought, this could be trouble. However, the chickens et al did not seem bothered by the presence of these birds overhead. Then I noticed these birds were darting about in the sky, much like bats feeding on insects. Could they be large bats?
These birds had pointy wings with a white mark visible on the underside of each wing. I searched online and found that these were common nighthawks, which today are not that common.
Outside doing evening chores, I saw a group of at least 20 night hawks, with the distinctive pointed wing shape similar to gulls, with a very visible white spot on the bottom of each wing, they were flying mostly above the field in between the house and the bee hives, and they remained for 30 minutes or so, feeding up above on insects. Again, the chickens and pigeons completely ignored them. Very interesting.
September 5, 2015:
I was outside just before dark this evening and saw something I don't recall ever seeing before. I saw a couple of large predator type birds flying about 100 feet over the pigeon / chicken / duck / rabbit / peacock area.
Uh oh I thought, this could be trouble. However, the chickens et al did not seem bothered by the presence of these birds overhead. Then I noticed these birds were darting about in the sky, much like bats feeding on insects. Could they be large bats?
These birds had pointy wings with a white mark visible on the underside of each wing. I searched online and found that these were common nighthawks, which today are not that common.
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