FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Chuck-will's-widow (Greene Co., TN)

["Donald Miller" <pandion@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

August 4, 2006
This evening at dusk, I observed a Chuck-will's-widow along Brown's Bridge 
Road, near Tusculum in Greene County.  The bird used a power line for a perch 
and sallied for insects every minute or so, always returning to the same 
general area.  I got great looks at it at close range and in flight.  The 
tawny-rufous overtones, which help to distinguish it from Whip-poor-will, were 
still visible in the dim light, and the long, pointy wings were displayed 
obviously when it flew.  As darkness approached and rain threatened, it 
disappeared during a brief interval when my attention was distracted. 

Don Miller
Greeneville, Greene Co., TN

Donald Miller
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