Interesting Common Nighthawk late summer behavior

Aug 29, 2013 post at the Toledo Naturalists message board

GL:

On Monday, August 26th there were about 150 Common Nighthawks flying over the west Toledo neighborhood near Close Park. The next evening, there was a massive flying ant hatch and even more nighthawks were present, taking advantage of the easy food source - about 200.

Comment by MA:

My observations over the years is that there clearly is a correlation between peak numbers of southbound nighthawk through the Toledo area and the hatch of flying ants. As best I can tell, the hatch of these ants is normally just a 1-2 day event, so somehow the nighthawks seem to have the timing figured out.

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