I really love the sound of a whippoorwill..........

[redkneck]

...but I'm going to put a bullet in the one that starts up outside my window every morning at 4am. Old folks around here will tell you it's time to plant cotton when the first one is heard, but I ain't planting any!!!

[Tominator]

We're a little too far north for them. I used to hear them on the lease I had in Morgan county. They are incessant, aren't they?

[Turkeygirl]

I heard my first one 2 years ago up in the Adirondacks....4:30am in the morning....Was at camp staff training. Wanting my sleep, I went out side and threw a rock in the trees...it stopped. Later that morning the camps administrator was asking if anyone had heard it and how it'd been several years since he'd heard one up there....Oh yeah I heard it,lol. One of the girls in the cabin says "Yeah, Ruth threw a rock at it to make it quiet" lol

[Orion_70]

I've found that a lot of us Southerners actually misidentify the whipoorwhill call with that of the chuck will's widow. I'm forunate enough to hear both at times. I love hearing them at night.

[Goinghuntin]

...but I'm going to put a bullet in the one that starts up outside my window every morning at 4am.

Take him out!! :gun_bandana:

Nathan

[redkneck]

I've found that a lot of us Southerners actually misidentify the whipoorwhill call with that of the chuck will's widow. I'm forunate enough to hear both at times. I love hearing them at night.

You're right on that.... BUT tell one of us rednecks you have a "chuck will's widow" outside your house and you're man card will be snatched just like you said "cardinal" instead of "red bird".

[HUNTINGMAN]

Not planting any Cotten huh,time to plant the whipperwill.

[RangerClay]

We're a little too far north for them. I used to hear them on the lease I had in Morgan county. They are incessant, aren't they?

Really? I've heard them up here in northern NY. I've seen one but we could hear them at our fishing camp.

[redkneck]

They are a nocturnal bird, and like an owl they are often heard, but rarely seen.

[Orion_70]

You're right on that.... BUT tell one of us rednecks you have a "chuck will's widow" outside your house and you're man card will be snatched just like you said "cardinal" instead of "red bird".

So true! Sometimes you have to educate the folks though, that they're 2 different birds with distinct calls

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Chuck-wills-widow/id

http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Whip-poor-will/id

[ruttinbuc]

I hear them every now and again around here. Most times high on the hills. Had one make me jump a little before daylight turkey hunting once. That sucker was right there.

[stcif]

That sound is how I knew it was time to come in for the night when I was a kid. My father would open the front door and whistle like a whipporwill. You could hear it a mile away and I would know it was time to go home. I miss that.

[clrj3514]

Bout the only time I've ever heard 'em is early morning waiting for a big tom to gobble. Can make you jump too.

[Norm Sauceman]

We have several in our neighborhood... I just love them!