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Title: Song of the whippirwill
Post by: flintlock on April 21, 2013, 11:02:39 PM
Are any if you like me in that you sure miss the long song of a Whipporwill calling into the night?  When I was a young man we used to sit at the tobacco barn and listen to their endless song.  It has been quite some time since I have heard one and I sure do miss it.

As you get older the simple things from the country mean a lt and that was one of my favorites.

Good luck in the turkey woods and I hope God blesses you this spring on getting to hear a Whipporwill I'm the eve and a big gobbler in the morning.

Wess
Title: Song of the whippirwill
Post by: WV Ridge Reaper on April 21, 2013, 11:05:46 PM
I try to whistle Whippoorwill everyday I love that sound!
Title: Re: Song of the whippirwill
Post by: hootn on April 21, 2013, 11:21:08 PM
wess go to richloam wma in Florida you will hear enough for a few years. i bet we heard 50 to 60 every morning where we hunted, to the point you could hardly hear anything else.

scott
Title: Re: Song of the whippirwill
Post by: TRKYHTR on April 22, 2013, 12:43:45 AM
OK how many of you who read this started whistling like a whippirwill? I did.

TRKYHTR
Title: Re: Song of the whippirwill
Post by: contagious on April 22, 2013, 08:15:05 AM
They were late , just like everything else this year.They showed up in force last weekend here in south Alabama.Seemed strange  hunting the first month without hearing them.!!!!
Title: Re: Song of the whippirwill
Post by: Gooserbat on April 22, 2013, 10:02:59 AM
I heard the first one last week.  I used to have it a a ringtone on my phone.
Title: Re: Song of the whippirwill
Post by: FL-Boss on April 22, 2013, 10:48:22 AM
I have been hearing them over the last few weeks... always reminds me of my younger years.
Title: Re: Song of the whippirwill
Post by: jacannon on April 22, 2013, 11:00:50 AM
I heard my first one this season last Sat. morning in Conecuh county Ala.
Title: Re: Song of the whippirwill
Post by: Grobec1 on April 22, 2013, 12:10:07 PM
This was the last weekend of turkey season here in Louisiana. No turkeys gobbling at all but the Whippoorwill's sang all night long. Woke up at 3 am and could hear them through the window. Listened to them sing me back to sleep until the alarm went off at 5 and they were still going at it.
Title: Re: Song of the whippirwill
Post by: RickC on April 22, 2013, 01:41:59 PM
We hear them in the evening around the house. Last week when I got a chance to go hunt I was set up around 530 and heard one, along with a few owls.
Title: Re: Song of the whippirwill
Post by: Isomaad on April 22, 2013, 02:48:58 PM
I still hear them in the Summer here in East Tn, but not as much as I use to.  If you are really jonesing for the sound.  Go here http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/whip-poor-will/sounds and click the sound file at the bottom.  It's pretty good.
Title: Re: Song of the whippirwill
Post by: Buckeye_Strutter_935 on April 22, 2013, 02:58:44 PM
havent heard any this year....but its also the little things in turkey hunting that makes it awesome!!
Title: Re: Song of the whippirwill
Post by: redarrow on April 22, 2013, 03:07:51 PM
Quote from: TRKYHTR on April 22, 2013, 12:43:45 AM
OK how many of you who read this started whistling like a whippirwill? I did.

TRKYHTR

You got me.  ;D We hear quite a few up north at our place in the springtime. Mom said it reminds her of Tennessee when she was a little girl.
Title: Re: Song of the whippirwill
Post by: T-town on April 22, 2013, 08:02:54 PM
Been hearing them since week two in westcentral Ala
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