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Posted by Roxanne Featherly on 20:38:54 01/04/09
Around 7PM this evening, Troy and I decided to go for a walk in our neighborhood for a little exercise and to look for Eastern Screech-Owls. We hadn't walked more than a few blocks when Troy spotted what he thought was a screech-owl perched high at 1 o'clock in a Mahogany tree. As I studied it's night profile, it didn't look like a screech-owl. Instead it was a little bigger, longer bodied, and had a flat head. While Troy jogged back to the house to get a flashlight and our binoculars, I watched this bird perch quietly, then fly out to catch passing insects. Then it made several single, liquid "pwips" which clinched its ID for me.....Whip-poor-will! A very cool bird of the day, (or in this case, bird of the night.)
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