Anyone else hearing them?

No, but I did listen to Randy Travis....

Was pointing them out to my boy weekend before last as we were waiting on shooting light in the turkey woods.

First I heard them was about two weeks back but that was the earliest I was in proper habitat for them.

Minor point, in Texas the ones you were hearing were most likely Chuck-will’s-Widows, the same species I heard.



Whippoorwills are smaller, breed mostly in the northeast, and sound like this...

I hear one almost every morning as I get out of my truck at work (at 0500). We here them occasionally around the farm.

I don't live in an area of Georgia that has breeding Whippoorwills so we don't hear their calls. We do have the Chuck-will’s-Widow and hear them all the time. Most people can't tell the difference and even think they are the same bird.
I live on Whippoorwill Dr which is bad enough that I have to spell it for people all the time. I can't imagine what it would be like to live on a street named Chuck-Will's Widow Drive ....

"Thunder Road"

Been hearing them in Virginia since Turkey season started

I’m in east Texas, they migrate through here supposedly, but I don’t know. The call is quick, sometimes a bunch are around here. They don’t stay long. They are loud.

Yea they started hear about two weeks ago also. Now its every night and morning, I love to here them.

Sure miss hearing them living here in the west. We have Poor Wills, but they're seriously lacking in the volume category. Get 50 yds away and one won't notice their call.

I’ve only heard whippoorwills twice in Texas over the last going on 40 years, both times in the spring. For a few years I lived in a hut on a deer leash outside of College Station, single cold faucet, no electricity
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One evening there were no less than five calling around the hut at dusk, easily the most I or almost anyone has heard at one time, but just briefly, less than a minute, then they most likely commenced to migrate.

The other time was a couple of years back here in town, early dawn, just briefly, most likely just arrived after a night of migrating north.

Chucks and ‘wills both are LOUD, a chuck landed on the metal roof of the hut once and it was rock concert loud.

One spring I rode out on my motorcycle to camp a couple of nights with my brother and his step son at Hot Springs AR, it was April and a chuck had just arrived and was setting up territory. Commenced to call around midnight just as social gatherings were winding down, damn chuck went on for hours.

“SHUUUT UP”, “BIRD SHUT UP”.... people were shouting all over the campgrounds

Them and the Wood Thrush put me into a trance. No sound nicer in the Spring and Summer. One time I had a Whippoorwill land on the steps to the entrance of a camp bus I was laying in. The door was open and I came up out of the chair I was napping in like I was shot. It started hollering and I didn't have a clue it was there. They are really loud close up!

We got one that cranks up just about every nite..... I heard it just a few minutes ago.

Used to hear them all the time here in N TX when I was a kid. Rarely ever hear one now.

Not many whip-poor-wills around here, but I have windows open and can hear the woodcock making their nasally "pweet" sound all around the house.

Got them in Hill Country

Heard some down on the river behind the house a few nights ago

And Mike’s got it righ we have chuck will’s here

I’ve only heard a Whipperwill once. My grandfather was in to birds and pointed out the call near the edge of his old rye field when I was kid. It was a rare thing to hear them around here. Cool song.

Y’all ever hear a “rain bird “.

Dad always claimed he heard them and it meant it was gonna rain tomorrow. 🤪

Never heard or saw one. 😬

Been hearing them evening and morning for about 2 weeks now in central Florida.

I’ve been hearing 4-5 every night from 8:30-9:30 pm - in western PA.

I've heard Mourning Doves called "rain birds" here in KY.

This might sound goofy but when you’re listening to either one, if you cup your hands behind your ears it’ll add a whole ‘Nother layer of fidelity to what you’re hearing.

45 years ago I could stand on a hilltop in Upstate NY in June in the evening and hear wood thrush upon wood thrush off into the distance. Not nearly as many now.

Habitat destruction in the Tropics sure but a few weeks back a lady who worked on a Preserve back East told me too many whitetails can destroy the forest understory up here, ruining the habitat.

I remember seeing a lot of Wood Thrush around a then recent clear cut also at my grandparents place. I had a lot of fun sitting on a hill in the middle of the clear cut listening to them at sunset and occasionally picking off vermin with my Ruger 10/22. Being a clear cut surround by mostly mature maples and swamp it was overrun with deer. I shot my first two deer within two hundred yards of that hill.

Rain bird? We called them rain crows in WVA. Black or Yellow Billed cuckoo. Only maybe one or two heard over an entire summer.

Different opinion here. The SOBs have kept me up all night long at Scout Camp in VA. Thank god we don't have them around where I camp most.

The rain crow I’m familiar with in folklore is the yellow-billed cuckoo, late migrants just arriving as we speak.

Point of interest they’re hairy caterpillar specialists, Ming the few birds that can eat then. They shed the lining of their stomach with the mat of hairs attached.

No good YouTube’s with the calls, the Audubon people have the best recordings (scroll down) but they put everything in the context of climate change.

https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/yellow-billed-cuckoo

This! We got lots of em here ! Rain Crows!!! Yellow Billed Cuckoo

Different opinion here. The SOBs have kept me up all night long at Scout Camp in VA. Thank god we don't have them around where I camp most.

I hear them every morning when I go turkey hunting. Even recorded them one morning.

Whipporwills usually start up in early March up here. As soon as we start hearing the Peepers down at the cow pond, the Whipporwills are not far behind.

To me, they sound perverse: "Whippor-WILL! Whippor-WILL! Whippor-WILL! But-she-won't! But-she-won't! But-she-won't! Not with YOU! Not with YOU! Not with YOU!

When I first got down here 20+ years ago, we also had Chuck Will's Widow. They came out a bit later in the year. However, they disappeared with the grouse. I haven't heard one in a decade.

I was camping once on Kerr Reservoir and one was calling in a tree right over top of me. It was like a car alarm going off. Threw rocks toward the noise but it didn't care. No sleeping with one that close.

One out here this morning behind the ranch house

Heard 3 this morning. One at the farm, one at the Arsenal gate, and one near the office parking lot.

Used to hear them frequently when we went to a cottage every year in Northern Wisconsin as a kid. One of my childhood memories, lying in bed listening to them. Have never heard one in South West Wisconsin, don't know if they used to be around here and have declined.

Sitting on my porch listening to a wood thrush behind the house, watching the flashes of:
orange from orioles,
yellow of the gold finches and yellow warblers,
red from the cardinals, and
blue from the indigo buntings,
makes me feel incredibly fortunate to live where I do

We have them beaucoup on the farm here. Only just started firing off with their calls about 5 days ago.

When they start, it’s a competition between about 4 birds spread about 400 yards apart.

I always wait until the whipper will starts calling to plant our corn. That’s what the old timers always say at least in our area of Tenn

Well, I beat the bastards, have had the corn planted for 2 weeks. They are really late this spring.

Note- ours go batshît crazy about 20 mins after sundown. Only call for a few mins and shut down. I have not known any to call late into the overnight.

We have a bird here that is called a Night Hawk. People used to call them Whippoorwills or Rainbirds. They come out in the evening and catch flying insects. The only vocal sound I ever heard them make were peeps. But they can make some real neat sounds with their wings----I think part of a mating ritual. I saw about a dozen of them the other evening, but not near as many as a few year ago.
I have only seen one of them not flying ,sitting on a tree limb in town.
I have always wondered if Night Hawk was their proper name.

I just did my research and they actually are Night Hawks and are related to the Whippoorwills!

I caught one fly fishing and it was almost dark and the bird got tangled up in the leader and hit the water. I unwrapped the line and the bird flew away.

The middle/ eastern part of Michigan's lower peninsula has an area known loosely as the sand and oak plains and Night Hawks are fairly common in the area. I've spent hours watching and listening to them.

The wing noise is the feathers "rattling" as they pull out of a dive, which they do in pursuit of flying insects.

We have lots of night hawks too, quick bird.

I caught one of those too, while fly fishing in NM one year, right at sundown. He took my dry fly in midair / mid-Cast.
Had to splash him down in the river to catch him. Released him, and set him on the bank so they could dry out.

Thanks Mike. Had no idea what they looked like.
Always told Dad he was “losing it” when he said that. 🤠

Just a few minutes ago I heard a whippoorwill in my backyard. That's a big first for this place, and we've been here 19 years. Pretty darned cool.

Happened to me in Arkansas when tent camping in late May. Couldn't sleep for the darn things. I think I have only heard them once or twice where I live in Louisiana.

Down here we have bull bats. Different kind of nighthawk. Think there a tad bigger than a whippoorwill or chucks po azz widow

I'm in Central Wisconsin.... just heard my first one last night.... the sound of God whispering in my ear...