The Mysterious Folklore of the Whippoorwill
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We live in northern Ontario and the whippoorwill can be heard each night early spring into summer. When we moved up this house which is mostly bush it would sing around 10pm and then around 4am each time about an hour. For some strange reason this year it started it’s chanting in the spring and seems to sing at least 5 times a night for long periods. Not really sure why this is???
I live in Norridgewock ME. and we have 3 whipporwill that go off every evening around 8:30 pm and again around 4am from starting in May thru the summer i hate these burds with a passion i wish somwonw would take them away it ia in no way a “blessing” to hear them…its a curse! Someone please please take them away
I was two and a half years old when my father died and my mother and I moved to New Jersey to be near her family. My grandparents had a little cottage in Point Pleasant, NJ and we all would listen to the whippoorwill in the early evening. My grandfather would tell us stories as we listened and it was truly a magical time for me.
I was two and a half years old when my father died and my mother and I moved to New Jersey to be near her family. My grandparents had a little cottage in Point Pleasant, NJ and we all would listen to the whippoorwill in the early evening. My grandfather would tell us stories as we listened and it was truly a magical time for me.
Just this year I’ve come across this bird! I think I might’ve heard it before in a great distance but now I believe they are living under my porch roof… I’m kind of scared now that the Omen is of death if you hear them close to the home. They are VERY close and very loud and go on for hours on end. I hope he finds his mate soon and that the omen is not true!
I’m in central eastern Ontario Canada btw
I haven’t heard a whippoorwill sing in a long time. But the night my daddy was dying. I heard one sing for hours that night.
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Yes I have always cherish the call of the Whippoorwill when I was growing up my family spent months at the lake in the summertime spring and fall, and I was almost rocked to sleep like a euphoria to the song as a whippoorwill I will never forget how peaceful and how serene it made me feel I feel like at night the water was so smooth and the air was so steel and now I have one at my house every year every year he’s in the woods behind the house and we’re close to water and we have ponds and sand in Georgia. Not far outside Atlanta and I just love that bird I’ll tell you I love the song, the memories it’s like I can see like I’m there again at the lake as a young child as a young man and I have just always been fascinated and just so , it’s like a buzz it’s crazy but it takes me somewhere that I really really cherish I mean after all, I can close my eyes and see exactly where I’m at almost every time every year it’s crazy, so yeah, I love this bird and I have one here at the house now for about four years. I don’t know how long is gonna be there he’s singing his ass off all night long and I love it I crack the wind at night , just so I can hear him all night long man what a wonderful song so God bless the Whippoorwill that’s it. I could talk for hours about the memories. Yeah I love this bird I’ve actually seen the bird and I cannot believe the camouflage is crazy in the daytime. I saw the bird he was at the bottom of the tree, but he was on the tree. He was about a foot off the ground and he was standing on the tree sideways. You know he wasn’t vertical are you wasn’t horizontal he was vertical, but he went pointed up and down his pointed left and right, you know , how peaceful that guy just chilling out looked. He looked right at me and I’ll write him. I said God bless you and I think that Burdett knew I meant no harm because he just chilled out. I never moved in. I was there a good 10 minutes talking to him. Great bird there are so many people that hate that song everybody I meet just about and I’m just like really I don’t get it so for me good memories, good places good Times, my life I had a good childhood and that bird is important part of it.
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That is such a nice story. I just heard the Whip-poor-will for the first two 2 nights straight. What a beautiful melodic sound. I can see why its song brings back memories. I am so happy these birds are still here.
When I was a young girl, I would be laying in a feather bed in my grandparents log cabin in Brown County, Indiana. I heard the Whippoorwill serenading me in the still of a summer night. For me, the serenade of the Whipporwill was a blessing I longed to experience at my grandparents cabin. No air-conditioning so you could soak in the night sounds uninterrupted. Beautiful memories stored in my mind. I live in Texas now and long to hear the serenade of the Whippoorwill.
I have seen the Nighthawks flying overhead few times their a relative of the Whippoorwill and the poorwill is a the only
Bird in North America that can hibernate