# Nighttime hawks standing in a field?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 17, 2007, 8:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nighttime-hawks-standing-in-a-field/404423 "2007-05-17T08:36:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nighttime-hawks-standing-in-a-field/404423/21 "2007-05-18T02:43:43Z")

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Huh. Just…huh.

SoCal shoots…and scores! 😃

Nightcrawlers, would be what they’d be after here, in the Heartland. Gawd knows _whut_ they might be finding to eat in the grass growin’ in the Devil’s Playground. [snerk]

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**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nighttime-hawks-standing-in-a-field/404423/22 "2007-05-18T02:48:15Z")

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Well, they certainly don’t sound like hawks. Night-Herons could be a possibility, though the behavior would be unusual. But without a more detailed description it’s a bit hard to say for sure.

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**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2007, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nighttime-hawks-standing-in-a-field/404423/23 "2007-05-18T02:52:26Z")

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Where are you running? I know that there is a large population of Canadian Geese at Vasona Park, and along the Los Gatos Creek Trail near the perk ponds. I would suspect that you’d see them at Central Park in Santa Clara, or or any park with a large body of water. The only terrestrial birds of prey that I recall seeing around here were [burrowing owls](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrowing_Owl) at the northern outskirts of Santa Clara County before the rise of Silicon Valley. The last time I saw them was when Mission College first opened up. They’re probably all gone now.

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