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Post by tomthreetoes on Jan 20, 2015 8:08:32 GMT -5
I was watching a turkey hunting video a few evenings ago and I heard a whippoorwill calling. It made me think, I haven't heard a whippoorwill around here for several years. That used to be one of my favorite sounds in the spring woods. Not just here but in our spot in Kentucky they are absent. Has anyone else noticed this?
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Post by dbd870 on Jan 20, 2015 8:59:21 GMT -5
This is not a bad thing!
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Post by drs on Jan 20, 2015 11:52:48 GMT -5
I was watching a turkey hunting video a few evenings ago and I heard a whippoorwill calling. It made me think, I haven't heard a whippoorwill around here for several years. That used to be one of my favorite sounds in the spring woods. Not just here but in our spot in Kentucky they are absent. Has anyone else noticed this? I still hear them and also " Chuck-Will's-Widow", in my area, but not as many as a few years ago. I normally start hearing them in late April, but with modern farming practices and development of rural areas, eliminates their habitat. |
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Post by featherduster on Jan 20, 2015 12:03:22 GMT -5
They are becoming extinct along with ducks in Indiana.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2015 13:56:25 GMT -5
I have several pairs of Whip poor Wills around my place in Dearborn County. I heard them every morning during turkey season last spring.
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Post by ridgerunner on Jan 20, 2015 19:17:36 GMT -5
Moths...whippoorwills feed almost exclusively on moths, pesticides are killing moths to the point food for whippoorwills is pretty much non-existent in the Midwest farm country..I noticed the same the past several years turkey hunting...the first birds I would always hear in the morning while waiting on daylight was the whippoorwills, not any more though...I rarely hear them, so I done some research as to why..I found out. sad story.
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Post by ridgerunner on Jan 20, 2015 19:21:46 GMT -5
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Post by Ahawkeye on Jan 20, 2015 20:40:06 GMT -5
I still hear them in Perry county while turkey hunting.
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Post by span870 on Jan 20, 2015 20:49:08 GMT -5
Hoosier national forest. Can't hear the turkeys sometimes.
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Post by ridgerunner on Jan 21, 2015 5:42:14 GMT -5
Hoosier national forest. Can't hear the turkeys sometimes. I hear them when I hunt Kentucky, but here where I hunt in Indiana you don;t hear them anymore....there was tons of them 10 years ago, now nothing. |
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Post by chubwub on Jan 21, 2015 7:12:23 GMT -5
Apple orchards must be good habitat for them then. They were all over my parent's old farm right smack dab in richy-rich let's bulldoze everything to make roundabouts Hamilton county.
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Post by drs on Jan 21, 2015 11:33:41 GMT -5
Hoosier national forest. Can't hear the turkeys sometimes. I hear them when I hunt Kentucky, but here where I hunt in Indiana you don;t hear them anymore....there was tons of them 10 years ago, now nothing. When my family and I moved to Evansville, back in 1971, you could hear lots of Whip-poor-wills. There were so many at one time that you would have to shut your windows, at night, in late Spring as they would be very noisy. Around the early 1990's there seemed to be fewer & fewer and the last time I heard a Whip-poor-wills call was 1994, in Indiana. It seems like other related birds belonging to the family Caprimulgidae (Goatsuckers or Nightjars), are seldom seen or heard, like the Common Nighthawk. |
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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Jan 24, 2015 18:57:18 GMT -5
Had some this spring in Jasper co. One of my favorite birds as well
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Post by duff on Jan 25, 2015 7:36:01 GMT -5
I hear them out back each year. I know they have been declining for a while. Hadn't heard of the night hawks loosing ground.
They are my favorite, nothing says summer like baseball under the lights listening to the night hawks eating the bugs.
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Post by drs on Jan 25, 2015 9:27:15 GMT -5
Had some this spring in Jasper co. One of my favorite birds as well Down here, we have an abundance of River Gulls & Crows. Just returned from Walmart, and the parking lot was full of Gulls. |
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Post by Sasquatch on Jan 26, 2015 7:35:48 GMT -5
I grew up smack in the middle of the woods, in Decatur co, right next to Franklin co. I recall hearing them as a child. I don't think I was even a teenager the last time I heard one. I am now 38 and haven't heard one in all those years.
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Post by freedomhunter on Jan 26, 2015 8:25:45 GMT -5
I have heard one in Owen County, Indiana. The farm I turkey hunt in south-central Kentucky is loaded with them and they will drive you nuts in the morning waiting for daylight. It is a neat call for sure that I miss hearing.
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Post by Boilermaker on Jan 26, 2015 9:40:01 GMT -5
Last I heard one was last spring in SW Bartholomew County while fishing late one evening. That's the only place I've ever heard one though.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2015 19:02:22 GMT -5
One place in Indiana that has a lot of them is Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge.
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