Re: [Maine-birds] K'bunk plains at dusk

Around 9 tonight there was a FOY Whip-poor-will (or to use H.P. Lovecraft's nomenclature, a psychopomp) "whipping" and eventually giving its full call from the area between the Village Cemetery and Hancock Brook in Hiram.

Other cultural references to Eastern Whip-poor-wills:  "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", Robert Frost's "Ghost House", "It Happened One Night" & Elton John's "Philadelphia Freedom".  (thanks Wikipedia).

Sean Smith

On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:36 PM Charles Duncan <charles.d.duncan@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks to all who replied to my inquiry about E Whip-poor-will crepuscular calls at the Plains.

I'll report that four of us tried tonight, persisting just over an hour after sunset (7:58 pm).  We stayed near the parking area as others had reported good success hearing birds from there.  Neither whip-poor-will nor woodcocks graced us with their presence.  We did hear an Upland Sandpiper sing just once in failing light at 8:34 but never saw it.  The moon had not yet risen when we left.

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