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  • From: <eureka AT hctc.net>
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  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] HEY HEY! I hear peepers!
  • Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:05:05 -0500

Here in the Texas Hill Country we have its relative the Chuck Wills Widow whose call is often mistaken for a Whiporwill. One that takes residence each spring in the arroyo arrived last week. Apparently we are at the westernmost edge of it's habitat, so it is considered rare for our area, and a treat to hear from our garden chairs at sundown.

--Sage
Way Out in Texas

On Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:13:47 -0500
Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

On Apr 22, 2008, at 8:05 PM, roxann wrote:

And I've been hearing whiporwills :) I love it when they start their calls, but sometimes the chorus of them can get so loud at night that I can't get to sleep.

I need help on this whippoorwill thing. My memory of them in Wisconsin is that their sound trailed off at the end: whippoorwillllllll. Here in southern Missouri it is a hard, insistent sound, with the last of the three sounds up a couple notes. Quite jarring and unpleasant to my ear. Anyone know if there are two whippoorwills? Or shall we simply attribute my confusion to my imperfect memory?

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