Common Nighthawk in Boulder County

[Kat Bradley-Bennett]

Last Thursday, as the sky was building up to hit north Longmont and Berthoud with a tornado, the sky above my house in west Longmont was abuzz with Barn and Cliff Swallows, gobbling up the bugs that had been lifted by the moving air. Among them was my FOS Common Nighthawk with its familiar PEENT, hunting way higher than the swallows.

Also, if you haven't seen them, the Boulder County Fairgrounds Osprey are feeding 3 hungry chicks. Check them out on the Osprey Cam: http://www.bouldercounty.org/os/openspace/pages/ospreycamera.aspx

Kat Bradley-Bennett

Longmont