[cobirds] Last of season C. Nighthawk, first junco (Arapahoe)

Yesterday, nighthawk.

Since moving to Centennial (western Arapahoe County) in 2016, I often see one late Common Nighthawk in October.

• 10/10/2016 - deKoevend Park
• 10/3/2019 - near deKoevend Park
• 10/5 - 10/6/2020 - Willow Spring Open Space

This year, it's possible my wife saw that lone late migrant. I was inside yesterday (10/3) and otherwise occupied, while she was watching clouds around 5:30ish. She said she saw one flying southward. She's not a birder, but has had enough opportunities to see, look at photos, and talk about this bird, owing to my pre-occupation with them (explained here, in a blog I posted last year with the Center for Humans and Nature). She id'd them by shape and by those diagnostic white marks under their wings. 

Usually, I wish the last migrant well, on behalf of the entire species' southward journey. This year, I was 15 minutes late to that and the bird was already out of sight. Perhaps I'll see another one yet this fall. If not, perhaps this one took my goodbye with it.

Today, junco

My first of season Dark-eyed Junco appeared in my yard today. It must have been an Oregon, for it took me a moment to be sure it wasn't a towhee, with that dark-colored head (from a distance, without binoculars). But no, by size and sound, a junco indeed. 

- Jared Del Rosso

Centennial, CO

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