Following Tom's great Whip-poor-will find of yestereve, I was
determined to be on watch at the appropriate time. I couldn't think
of a better place to station myself than by the pond right outside my
shop, a location that has produced 3 Whip-poor-will records in the
past 14 years. Never mind that two of those were on successive nights
in September, 1996, and that the third (May, 1998) may have
represented the same individual returning to a remembered migration
stop. It still seemed as fair a prospect as any.
As it turned out, there was no Whip for me tonight, but numerous bats
came out, and the toads were holding one whale of a pool-party! The
water was seething! After a while I retreated 100' from the water's
edge, to save my ears, and to have a better chance of actually
hearing a Whip-poor-will if one should pass. Can't wait to learn if
anyone was over on West Jersey Hill Road this evening. In my own
(very limited) experience a repeat performance after 24 hours is
perfectly possible...
-Geo
Geo Kloppel
Bowmaker & Restorer
227 Tupper Road
Spencer NY 14883
607 564 7026
g...@cornell.edu
geoklop...@gmail.com
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