http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/photoimage/nighthawk/ Photos and Front Porch Musing from Floyd County Virginia Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:25:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/photoimage/nighthawk/comment-page-1/#comment-4472 Bruce Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:50:49 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/2008/09/02/nighthawk/#comment-4472 Lately we've seen birds flying very high, almost at nightfall, crisscrossing the sky as if feeding on insects. They had a jerky kind of motion, with quick reversals and little gliding, so I thought they were swallows. Could they have been nighthawks? In the picture above , the bird definitely seems to be soaring like a hawk. Lately we’ve seen birds flying very high, almost at nightfall, crisscrossing the sky as if feeding on insects. They had a jerky kind of motion, with quick reversals and little gliding, so I thought they were swallows. Could they have been nighthawks? In the picture above , the bird definitely seems to be soaring like a hawk.

]]> http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/photoimage/nighthawk/comment-page-1/#comment-4468 Bill Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:34:27 +0000 http://www.fragmentsfromfloyd.com/2008/09/02/nighthawk/#comment-4468 I wonder do swallows, nightjars, bats, inhale when they mouth their prey? Do they gulp like fish? Otherwise it just seems like they might be pushing a lot of air around with those big mouths and their prey with it. I wonder do swallows, nightjars, bats, inhale when they mouth their prey? Do they gulp like fish?
Otherwise it just seems like they might be pushing a lot of air around with those big mouths and their prey with it.

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