Are whip-poor-wills intentionally annoying?

Beth Gallagher said:
MALWARE BLOCKED.

I'm getting a Malware Blocked warning when I open this thread. Is someone linking to

Malware URL :
exploringanimals.com
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Do you have the MWB extension installed? I don't. I hear it can be "buggy."

I went into my MWB and found nothing recent in the Detection History.
 
John Brunner said:
Do you have the MWB extension installed? I don't. I hear it can be "buggy."

I went into my MWB and found nothing recent in the Detection History.
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Yes, I have the Browser Guard installed. I've never had any problem with it that I'm aware of. I have more annoying things happen with Firefox, every damn time they update. (I'm on a Macbook with latest iOS.)

I didn't get the warning when I opened this thread this time.
 
Beth Gallagher said:
Yes, I have the Browser Guard installed. I've never had any problem with it that I'm aware of. I have more annoying things happen with Firefox, every damn time they update. (I'm on a Macbook with latest iOS.)

I didn't get the warning when I opened this thread this time.
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I guess you saw my first comment...I deleted the linked pic and ran it through IMGUR. That site is bad juju.

Maybe I'll install Browser Guard.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
I will trade you our neighborhood roosters all crowing for your whip-poor-will crying at night, @John Brunner ! Chickens, and especially roosters, are not supposed to be allowed here in the Huntsville city limits; but since all of the Hispanics moved in, they all have a backyard farm, and at the crack of dawn, the whole neighborhood erupts with the morning sounds of roosters trying to out crow each other, and it does not stop until they are worn out and go to roost at night.

We have had “visiting” chickens, ducks, rabbits, and even pigs that have wandered out of someone else’s yard and arrived here in our yard. Bobby and I have been expecting to see cows any day now……
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Yvonne, I think it is time for you all to have some chicken soup, peking duck, rabbit stew, and a nice big pork roast. Get the big stock pot out and let's cook! :D
 
Krystal Shay said:
Yvonne, I think it is time for you all to have some chicken soup, peking duck, rabbit stew, and a nice big pork roast. Get the big stock pot out and let's cook! :D
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Well, okay; but the problem is that I am still on the whole food plant based eating plan, and I think that all of those critters know that they are safe in our yard, and much more likely to be dinner if they stay in their own yard.
 
John Brunner said:
I just installed it. I hope it plays well with Ad Blocker and the tracking protections I have turned on in Firefox, as well as the DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials that I installed.

I tested it on that website and it gave me the notification.
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You may have a few conflicts. I use U Block Origin (to avoid ads on youtube) and it occasionally causes a blip. Easy enough to disable one of them for the webpage, though.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
I will trade you our neighborhood roosters all crowing for your whip-poor-will crying at night, @John Brunner ! Chickens, and especially roosters, are not supposed to be allowed here in the Huntsville city limits; but since all of the Hispanics moved in, they all have a backyard farm, and at the crack of dawn, the whole neighborhood erupts with the morning sounds of roosters trying to out crow each other, and it does not stop until they are worn out and go to roost at night.

We have had “visiting” chickens, ducks, rabbits, and even pigs that have wandered out of someone else’s yard and arrived here in our yard. Bobby and I have been expecting to see cows any day now……
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We have plenty of K12 back yard farmers in a nice neighborhood. The two Latino families have no chickens but the dogs of one caught a chicken on the run:)
 
Mary Robi said:
I'm excited! We have a Great Horned Owl that has moved into the woods behind us. He's out there raising cain tonight. Usually, we only have Barred Owls who like to "talk" between the trees.
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I love owls.

I was watching a PBS special on birds of prey. In one segment, they had a line of microphones set up in a large room with a perch at the beginning of the line and bait at the end. One by one different species flew over the microphones to the bait, and their inaudible-but-detected wing-flapping sounds were recorded and displayed. Then came the owl. Dead silence. The display flat-lined.

Then there's their ability to turn their heads 270° (they have to...their eyeballs are fixed in the sockets staring straight ahead.) Absolutely miraculous creatures.
 
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Every now and then, one will be out during the morning hours.

Once, when I was out on a morning walk, one was perched on a stop sign. I inched closer and closer and he just sat there, looking at me like, "Yeah, lady, I'm out today. Sometimes I'm in the mood for a breakfast buffet; maybe that yappy little rat dog will be out and I can do the neighborhood a service..."
 
I used to hear whippoorwills more often in Michigan than I do in Maine, but I don't know if it's the time or the place. I don't know if I've heard them here in Maine, at all.
 
Ken Anderson said:
I used to hear whippoorwills more often in Michigan than I do in Maine, but I don't know if it's the time or the place. I don't know if I've heard them here in Maine, at all.
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It looks like the Eastern Whippoorwill are in Florida, around the gulf coast, and into Mexico/Central America during the non-breeding season, and migrate north to breed from late March into mid-May. They stay put to raise their young, and fly back south perhaps around September-November...but no one knows for sure. Apparently, they are hard to track after breeding season because they are tiny and camouflaged and can only be spotted when they are vocal. Once breeding season is over, they aren't vocal at all while raising the chicks and migrating back south...one bird doesn't stay at the nest and call back to the other like other birds do.

It's interesting to read about this because I had not heard the one on my property in a while, and I thought it had left. It's probably out there somewhere right now raising a brood.

Here's a map of their habitat:
Blue=Non-breeding season habitat
Yellow=Fly-over country
Orange=Breeding season habitat

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Mary Robi said:
I had a Chuck-Will's-Widow that lived in my tree for three years. They're like whipporwills but with a distinct "chuck" in the call.
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Apparently the Chuck-Will's-Widow non-breeding region overlaps with the whipporwhill's in Central America, but the Chuck-Will's-Widow migrates only as far north as the whipporwhill's fly-over region to breed, while the whipporwhill continues further north.

I also just read that the French naturalist (Charles Bonaparte) who created the genus that these birds fall under was Napolean's nephew.
 
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