[wisb] Re: Whip-Chuck's Wills Widow & Woodcock Walworth-Jefferson Counties
- From: Steve <sfreisch@xxxxxxxx>
- To: wisbirdn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 09:33:22 -0500
The Whip-Poor-Wills and the Chuck-Will's-Widow were present last night
(6/8/2014) at that same location. We also heard the Woodcocks on the
north side of the road.
We arrived at about 8:45 and the Chuck-Will's-Widow was singing. It
seemed to be quite close to the road. It moved around somewhat but this
was one of the easiest finds we've had. The Whip-Poor-Wills were not as
close but easily heard, too.
We parked in a little driveway that leads into a field on the north side
of Young Road (.5 miles west of Tamarack). I wouldn't recommend pulling
in there if your car has low clearance. There's a several inch dropoff
from the road to the driveway. A short distance (perhaps a couple
hundred feet) west of that is a space that you can pull off parallel to
the road and there isn't nearly as much of a dropoff.
Steve Reischel
Evansville, WI
Rock County
On 6/1/2014 11:23 PM, Spencer Stehno wrote:
> Whip-Poor-Will Chuck-Will's-Widow
> Woodcock
> Sunday, June 2, 2015, 7:30 - 9:30 PM 78-72oF Scattered
> Thunderstorms - but partly cloudy during viewing
>
> This is on the Walworth & Jefferson County line on the east-west Young Road
> - Walworth south / Jefferson north, just west of Tamarack Road
>
>
>
> After heavy downpours at 7 PM, skies partly cleared. We parked on Young
> Road 0.5 miles west of intersection of Tamarack and Young Roads.
>
> At 8:45 PM Woodcocks started peenting, flying, and repeating - there were
> two. They kept flying over us with all their sounds and landing and taking
> off for 20 minutes before we left.
>
>
>
> At 8:47 PM Whip-Poor-Will starts calling on north side of road to our right
> and stops after a few calls, but other Whip-Poor-Will starts calling to our
> left, and around 9:03 PM it quits while the one on right was overlapping &
> continues, then stops at 9:07 PM. Nothing calling. Then, at 9:11 PM,
> Chuck's Will's Widow started strongly calling for the next 15 minutes 0.1
> mile further west on "south" side of Young Road just past large rust-colored
> high-tension-power tower. Strongly calling and wonderfully distinct, and
> now fully dark.
>
>
>
> Two great birds to hear, along with the woodcocks! (We were surprised that
> woodcocks were still calling and sky-dancing in June)
>
> [Other "hearings" while waiting: Wood Thrush, Towhee, Red Bellied wp,
> Turkey, Thrasher, Catbird, Field sp, Song sp, Chipping sp, B. Jay, Crow,
> Cardinal, Robin, RB Grosbeak, Indigo Bunting]
>
>
>
> Spence Stehno / Dennis Edgar
>
> Waukesha Ben Goss Bird Club
>
>
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