whippoorwill

[thecfarm]

Yes I heard a whippoorwill tonight!!!!
I have not heard one of those for years.

[NewYankeeSawmill]

The old timers here say that's the all-clear to start planting. Have yet to see one...

[newoodguy78]

cfarm I used to spend weekends at my gram's house when I was growing up, one of the things I always remembered hearing was the whippoorwill singing away as I went to bed. Very fond memories.
Up until last year it had probably been 30 years since I heard that wonderful sound. As I came in the house tonight the question of if I'd hear one this year was on my mind. I hope so.

[SwampDonkey]

Used to be some at grandfather's camps, big w. pine trees and rocky bluffs up there.

[doc henderson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAWYV9Nj5Mc

[Peter Drouin]

Long time since I heard one.

[WV Sawmiller]

   I used to hear them a lot in N. Fla where I grew up. I never saw one in the daytime to recognize it as such. The few times I saw them at night they were on the ground and their eyes looked like a rabbit except you'd see a pair of eyes and with a rabbit you'd never see but one red eye.

[SwampDonkey]

They are similar to nighthawks, I've seen all kinds of them. But not often at the house, mostly their migration flight at the end of the season. Saw a flock last year. Out in the woods I here them at night if I'm camping out. But I have flushed them from open patches in spruce plantation. They nest on the ground like a grouse.

One thing I have not seen in 40 years are chimney swifts.