Re: [Maine-birds] Cory's Shearwater-yes Whip-Poor-Will-yes and no

Mark, that  makes  me chuckle....... 

 

 A one night stand with a whip-poor-will  outside your  guest  bedroom window  is an awesome  experience of  bird  vocalization.     WOW!!!!!!!!!    when do they  breathe ?

 

6 weeks and counting  of  9 P M  and  3 AM whip-POOR-Will ad nauseum ???????   I'm jaded.   String me up.

 

 Yessuh.    I can count on that like I can count on my alarm clock, but the  Alarm clock is  set   for  5:30   AM   not 3  AM.

 

She/He/They   are   nested  deep in a  wild  Rugosa Rose /Raspberry thicket that  seriously  needs   shovel pruning.   Overgrown and  my bad  on that.    Right habitat  and I  own it.  I    shouldn't  be complaining.

 

They'll just  have to  move  across the  " driveway"  to the knotweed/alder   thicket, 10  feet over   into  still  " edge" territory.   I don't  own that part.   TS for  me, as  that

 isn't   much  further  from  my window.

 

 It is better this week as I have a box fan in that  window,  so some  " white noise" to dampen  the   choral enthusiasm. 

 

 Oh, but rats.......  makes it  hard to hear the real alarm clock. 

 

Thats  kinda why I have a dog,  he   has   his  own alarm clock and shares his needs in  a non vocal manner. 

 

THWAP with the paw .  UP OUT NOW.  

 

OK Ok.

 

I don't think I'm  crazy, but  others might disagree. 

 

 All in good humor.

 

Sue in  Western Maine.  

 

 

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Mark R Hoffman

To: maine-birds@googlegroups.com

Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 7:33 PM

Subject: [Maine-birds] Cory's Shearwater-yes Whip-Poor-Will-yes and no

. Went to Chelsea last night with Skip and Linda to check out the Whip-Poor-Wills in my friends back yard. We heard one very close to his house right off then he kept moving around and never got a visual, still an awesome bird to hear vocalizing !

 

Mark R Hoffman