Nighthawk Drone Services

09/06/2026

🐕 THE TIGGER SHOW IS JUST GETTING STARTED!

A good friend of mine Bloodline Trackers of Longspur has an absolutely legendary tracking dog, and Tigger is coming into his prime at the perfect time.

This video shows him working out and solving a 72-hour-old track. Anybody who knows tracking understands just how impressive that is. It takes a phenomenal dog, a great nose, and a handler who knows how to let his dog work.

We are going to see this team have an incredible season this fall.

If you’re a hunter looking for a tracking dog this season, make sure you keep The Tigger Show in mind. We are going to be seeing a lot more from this team!

🐕🦌 It’s going to be a good season!

09/05/2026

💔 A HEARTBREAKING UPDATE ON DIXIE

Last night, I found Dixie.

This was one of the toughest nights I have ever had flying a thermal drone, and making that phone call to her owner was one of the hardest calls I have ever had to make.

When we go out searching for someone’s missing dog, we always hold onto hope that we are going to find them alive and help bring them home. You never want to look down from the air and see what I saw last night. Dixie wasn’t just a missing dog — she was someone’s loved family member, and this is not the ending any of us prayed for.

Unfortunately, she was no longer with us.

I want to sincerely thank the Lower Allen Township Police Department for their assistance, including helping secure the roadway after Dixie was located.

I also want to thank every single person who helped search for Dixie. People put up flyers, shared posts, drove countless miles, walked and searched, talked to neighbors, and continued looking when there were still no answers. The amount of support from this community was incredible.

This is one of the hardest realities of doing lost-pet recovery with a thermal drone. Not every search ends with the reunion we desperately want. Sometimes our job becomes providing an answer that no family ever wants to receive.

Right now, my heart is with Dixie’s owner and everyone who loved her.

Please be respectful and compassionate in the comments. Dixie’s owner is going through an incredibly difficult loss, and she deserves nothing but kindness and support right now.

Rest easy, Dixie. 🐾💔

09/04/2026

WHERE ARE YOU AIMING TOMORROW MORNING? 🦌🏹

Don't just pick an entry point. Pick an exit point.

That's the difference between a shot you're proud of and a search that starts at midnight.

Aiming at the right spot on the outside of a deer is only half the equation. The other half is where that arrow goes after it gets there.

Before you release, picture the entire path:

ENTRY → VITALS → EXIT

From a tree stand, especially on close shots, you're sending that arrow downward through the deer. An entry that looks perfect from 20 feet up can produce a very different exit than that same entry point from ground level.

The closer that deer gets to your tree, the steeper the angle becomes.

Quartering away? Don't just look at the crease behind the near shoulder. Think about where the vitals — especially that far-side lung — are actually sitting from your angle.

Quartering toward you? The window gets smaller, the margin for error gets tighter, and bone can be sitting right where you need that arrow to travel.

Then read the deer.

Is it relaxed — or is it alert, tense and ready to move?

An alert deer can react incredibly fast to the sound of the shot. Distance, arrow speed, body position and the animal's level of alertness all matter.

Sometimes the best shot is the one you wait another 10 seconds for.

Sometimes it's the one you don't take.

Tomorrow morning, don't just look at where you want that arrow to enter.

Think about where you want it to EXIT.

Good luck to everyone heading into the woods tomorrow. Be safe, be patient, and make that first one count. 🦌🏹

09/04/2026

PLEASE KEEP LOOKING FOR DIXIE. 💚

There are a lot of people who care about this little girl, and right now, we’re asking everyone to please keep their eyes open.

Dixie is STILL MISSING, with no confirmed sightings since the early morning hours of September 2nd. She is also in desperate need of her medication, which makes every day without a sighting that much more concerning.

We cannot thank everyone enough who has stepped up to help. Volunteers have put in countless miles on foot, others have driven the surrounding roads, talked with neighbors, checked properties, shared posts, and simply kept looking wherever they could.

Thank you. Every single one of you. Your time, your miles, and your willingness to help this family mean more than you know.

We’re also getting more flyers out today and continuing to spread the word throughout the surrounding neighborhoods. The more people who recognize Dixie, the better our chances are of getting that one sighting we desperately need.

📍 Mechanicsburg, PA — Simpson Ferry Road / Vernon Wass Park / Wesley Drive / Wesley Park Townhouses area

If you live anywhere in or around this area, please take an extra look around your property, under decks, around sheds, garages, wooded edges, and anywhere a frightened dog could be hiding.

If you see Dixie, please report the exact location, time, and direction of travel immediately.

📞 717-514-2186
📞 717-965-6522

Please keep sharing. Please keep looking. We just want to get Dixie home. 💚

09/03/2026

Crazy stuff !!

09/03/2026

🚨 DIXIE SEARCH UPDATE

We were back out searching for Dixie last night, but heavy downpours and intense lightning forced us to stop the search.

With rain coming down that hard, thermal clarity and visibility through the drone are compromised, and I didn’t want to make a call unless I could be 100% confident in what I was seeing.

Please keep your eyes peeled for Dixie this morning. Any sighting or information could be extremely valuable.

The search for Dixie continues. 💚🐾

09/02/2026

🚨 PLEASE SHARE — DIXIE IS MISSING 🚨

Dixie is still missing in Mechanicsburg, PA, with ZERO confirmed sightings.

She went missing during the thunderstorms and is very afraid of storms. Dixie is a friendly female dog and NEEDS MEDICATION, so getting eyes on her quickly is extremely important.

📍 Simpson Ferry Road / Vernon Wass Park / Wesley Drive / Wesley Park Townhouses area

If you see Dixie, please report the sighting ASAP with the exact location, time, and direction she was traveling.

📞 717-514-2186
📞 717-965-6522

PLEASE SHARE — someone may have seen her without realizing she's missing.

09/02/2026

SHOUT OUT TO OUR LOCAL POLICE DEPARTMENT!

A huge thank you to the local police department for their help during this search. They went above and beyond, giving us access to areas we otherwise wouldn’t have been able to search and simply being willing to help however they could.

That kind of cooperation can make a HUGE difference during a lost-pet search, and it is greatly appreciated.

One thing I always recommend: reach out to your local police department and let them know what’s going on. Let them know drones may be flying, vehicles may be parked in unusual locations, and people may be searching the area.

That way, if calls start coming in, dispatch and officers already know what’s happening and can respond appropriately.

Great communication makes for a better search.

Thank you again to the officers who helped us out on this one. We truly appreciate you!

09/02/2026

🚨 MISSING PONY — EXCHANGE, WV 🚨

Please keep an eye out for Sundance, a small pony who is currently missing in the Exchange, WV area.

His family is actively searching and hoping for any sightings or information that could help bring him home safely.

Please share, especially if you’re in or around the Exchange area. 🐴🙏

If spotted, please contact the numbers listed in the original post.

🚨Missing Sundance (small pony)

If are located in Exchange, WV would please help us keep an eye out for this horse, we would greatly appreciate it. Sundance’s family has been searching and is hoping for any information or leads that could help bring their beloved horse home.
Please take a moment to read the information and share this post. If you see Sundance or have any possible information, please contact the owners directly or reach out to us so we can help in any way possible.
Let’s all work together and help bring Sundance home safely.

(304)644-4611
(304)290-7854
(304)439-4951
(304)439-1659

09/02/2026

THE FIRST TIME I SEARCHED FOR MILKSHAKE, I FOUND NOTHING. THE SECOND TIME, I LEARNED WHY.

Milkshake had been missing for nearly a month.

She'd slipped out through a small gap in a window — one of those little escape routes nobody thinks about until it's too late.

And just like that, she was gone.

It was the middle of summer, in about the worst terrain you can hand a thermal drone. Heavy canopy. Woods. Creeks. Standing corn shoulder-high in every direction.

Her family was trying everything.

Feed stations out. Trail cameras running. Traps set.

Nothing.

That's one of the hardest things about a missing cat. You can have the perfect trap and the perfect feed station, but if it's 500 yards from where that cat is actually living, none of it matters.

You'll catch every raccoon, possum, skunk and neighborhood cat in the county before you catch the one you're looking for.

Eventually, they called me.

I flew the first search and covered a good-sized area.

No Milkshake. Nothing at all.

That's a hard result to give a family that's already been searching for weeks. But a thermal drone isn't magic. It can only see an animal that's somewhere the camera can actually see.

They didn't give up.

They asked me to come back and search a different area.

So I did.

At about 3:30 in the morning, there she was — walking through the middle of a cornfield.

There's a reason I like searching for cats during those quiet overnight hours. A cat that stays tucked away and invisible all day may finally come out once everything gets quiet.

And Milkshake had found herself a hiding place nobody expected.

She was living in a groundhog hole.

Suddenly, a lot of things made sense.

During parts of the day, she wasn't just difficult to see with thermal.

She was impossible to see.

She was underground.

We could have flown directly over her during a different time of the day and never known she was there.

But now we knew where Milkshake was living and where she was moving.

That changed everything.

Instead of guessing where to put the trap and feed station, we could put them where she actually was.

A few days later, it worked.

After nearly a month missing, Milkshake was safely trapped and reunited with her family.

That's why I tell people not to lose hope just because there haven't been sightings.

No sightings doesn't mean gone.

Sometimes you're searching the wrong area.

Sometimes you're searching at the wrong time.

And sometimes your cat is asleep underground in a groundhog hole while everyone is looking for her.

Don't quit at week two.

Sometimes it takes patience. Sometimes it takes changing the plan. And sometimes you just need that one little piece of information that changes the entire search.

👇 Has your cat ever turned up somewhere that made absolutely no sense? I'd love to hear the story.