2006 NIGHTHAWK TOTALS  
SAT 8/26 SUN 8/27
LOCATION
MASSACHUSETTS LOCATIONS:
Worcester: Notre Dame       18[1] NA Fran McMenemy, Rick Walker, Mike Walker
Leicester: Rt.56       563[2] 0[3] Mark Lynch, Sheila Carroll, Bart Kamp[4]
Uxbridge: West Hill Dam     40[5] NA Paul and Beth Milke
Grafton: High School     60[6] 4[7] John Liller, Kim Kastler, Colin Bacchiocchi[8]
Millbury: Ramshorn Pond       136[9] 0[10] Deb and Dan Berard
Brimfield: Lake Siog[11]       62[12] 0[13] Bill Cormier, Nancy Cormier
Barre Falls Dam[14]       137[15] NA Chris Ellison
Hardwick: Quabbin aqueduct[16]       NA 0[17] Chris Ellison
Sutton: Town Farm Road       NA 0[18] Phil Guerin
           
RHODE ISLAND LOCATIONS:          
Cumberland: Reservoirs[19]       NA 0[20] Mark Lynch, Sheila Carroll
Cumberland: Sneetch Pond       NA 0 Mark Lynch, Sheila Carroll
Cumberland: Resurrection Cemetery[21]       NA 0 Mark Lynch, Sheila Carroll
Foster: Barden Reservoir[22]       8[23] NA Eugenia Marks of ASRI
Smithfield: Woonasquatucket Reservoir       NA 0 Eugenia Marks of ASRI
Smithfield: Woonsocket Reservoir[24]       NA 0 Mark Lynch, Sheila Carroll
[1]
some not in the Corridor.
[2]
all seen at the very end of the count and almost all heading south.
[3]
Though birds headed in a variety of directions over the course of the night, most eventually went south/southwest, we also witnessed a lot of northward drift and 3 very high kettles.
[4]
Checked Sunday by Dan and Deb Berard
[5]
and Oona Aldrich and Jean McLarty
[6]
birds were feeding over West River and then eventually headed south
[7]
Most flying south along Quinsigamond River
[8]
3 feeding over Lake Ripple, Grafton; 1 heading south overhhead
[9]
with Sharon Williams and Bob Williams on Sat; Mike Makyers and Ellen Maykers on Sunday
[10]
feeding; some movments NE at first, then SE/SW.
[11]
site checked: no nighthawks
[12]
Not "in" the Corridor
[13]
feeding over lake
[14]
site checked: no nighthawks but swallows and kingbirds present
[15]
Not "in" the Corridor
[16]
new site! Movements mostly SW or S, but some  NW. This is the hawkwatch location.
[17]
not "in" the Corridor
[18]
site checked: no nighthawks
[19]
site checked: no nighthawks
[20]
birds have been seen here in years past feeding in the rain.
[21]
major outfall of shorebirds at Arnold's Mills Reservoir; also there a record 16 Great Egrets
[22]
Good double-digit counts have been had from here in years past
[23]
not technically in the Corridor, but just south of Glocester, which is in the Corridor.
[24]
birds seen heading south along western end of reservoir.
[25]
a spot where triple digit counts were had last year