Subject: [Tweeters] FYI - Alabama Mockingbird?
Date: Apr 2 19:09:31 2009
From: vogelfreund at comcast.net - vogelfreund at comcast.net


When I was a teen in Sarasota, Florida, what might be called night whippoorwills were really Chuck-will's-widows. Sometimes I could see them backlit while chasing bugs around the tops of cabbage palms (for example). When I was visiting my mother and step-father (1978-79) in the South Miami area, I thought the serenadings by night-singing mockingbirds were great entertainment. But my step-father threatened to shoot the one keeping him awake outside his bedroom window (ha ha).


Phil Hotlen
Bellingham, WA

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Barber" <dbarber71 at comcast.net>
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 9:56:00 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [Tweeters] FYI - Alabama Mockingbird?

I'm sitting outside my hotel at 11:00 pm here listening to this bird
that sings a variety of tunes. Man at another table tells me it is a
"Night Whipoorwill". I go looking for the bird in the tree, not
expecting to see anything. But I do and it looks to me like a
mockingbird. But it is only streetlit in a leafy tree so I'm not sure,
but it is certainly not anything in the poorwill/nightjar family.

So the question is: Do mockingbirds sing that late at night?

Thanks

David Barber Vancouver, WA tripping in Birmingham at the Civil Rights
Institute

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