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Same here! Listened to them at my grandparents farm, such a great memory. Catching fireflies at dusk and not a care in the world. I miss those good old days!
When I was a kid, I fell asleep to this sound every night. Then suddenly I never heard one again, it's really sad, I miss them. They used to sit on our porch and sing so loud. Now I'd kill to hear one around my place again. That was 25 years ago.
Living in a very rural Orlando subdivision, have one or whipoorwills every nite now for past few wks--1st time ever in 5 yrs I have lived here & son & family never in 10 yrs of living here-- my 2 young grandsons enthralled with this new birdsong🙂
Dang, I remember not being able to sleep because of the annoying sound. We moved to the suburbs and I haven't heard one in about 4 years and I miss that sound so much. You don't realize how beautiful their call is til its gone. I miss the country so much
I've been living in the country for 8 years now and I only heard them my very first year. My grandparents and I would listen to them at night too. But I sure do miss there song. 😢😢😢
While now living in the city, my grandfather used to make the sound and told how he would always here it at night growing up in the country in northern Wisconsin. I was eager to hear one myself one day. He has since passed. I am now middle aged. Last year on a bike trip, I Airbnb'd a remote cottage in northern Michigan, and as I relaxed by the campfire one evening, there it was, the call of the whippoorwill piecered the night's silence. I recognized it immediately and was in awe. Grandpa came to say hi as I thought. It was magical. The only time I've heard one. I'll never forget it. 💫
Growing up in the rural countryside of Missouri this was all you heard on summer nights. Hearing this brings back so many happy memories of late night bon fires and camping on the river.
I remember them singing when I was a very young child, It's one of the most beautiful songs a bird can sing. Reminds my of the good times I experienced growing up.❤ I'm 64 and so very appreciated.🐧❤️
Not soothing in the early AM for 5 hours straight. Gets pretty annoying after 5 minutes of the same sound over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again
To each his own I guess. I like the sound of cicadas in the beginning of summer, but by July they get on my f***ing nerves. But I always love whippoorwills
Having read a lot of the comments, I'm surprised at the hate! The "annoying, loud, non-stop" Whipoorwills that people are talking about must be from another part of the country other than the Georgia mountains. This is where I grew up hearing them. They only "whipoorwilled" just a few times and always soundex faraway to me.... they were never loud or obnoxious and their sound was slower and more graceful than the one in this video. I've always thought they sound soulful and kind of forlorn.... and as I've said in another comment, they sound haunting.... but not in a bad or scary way. But in a soothing, comforting way. I thought I heard one tonight... just once.... and it took me back to my childhood. I can't remember when, before tonight, the last time I heard one. I guess because I live in a damn town instead of the country. I love hearing them. In the summertime in the country I loved the birds I'd hear. During the bright and sunny day while out playing I'd hear bob whites, occasionally a turtle dove.... and then at night is when I had the pleasure of hearing the whipoorwills and catching lightening bugs. Nostalgia has set in.... *sigh*
I MISS THIS SOUND AS A CHILD GROWING UP IN THE COUNTRY.. IT WAS SO CALMING, WHILE MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD UNLIMITED STORIES AROUND THE FIRE! ❤LIFE WAS SO SIMPLE BACK THEN.
Ironically, according to folklore... hearing this sound means "impending death". I remember moving to the country as an early teen and the first time I heard this, it kinda creeped me out
I’ll never forget listening to the forest coming alive around me and my grandpa as we walked into the forest on a cool spring morning. First the robin, then the cardinal, chickadees and titmice following, and then a pair of barred owls calling back and forth, and finally the whip poor will broke through it all with this song, that i’d never heard before and will never forget.
Some areas still have plenty. Maybe consult some local birdwatchers or look on Facebook for a birding network for your state. They could tell you when and where to go to for a chance of finding them.
I live in Missouri, just sitting out on my front porch, on the porch swing,,,drinking sweet tea. Listening to the whipperwill call to his mate. She answers back. It's hot in the upper nineties and humid out. Swing and fighting mosquitos,,, came on to see what this whipperwill looks like. I live in my folks ole home place. So blessed.
To all you 60's and 70's kids that remember these sounds....they are still alive...but you have to go out where there is no urban noise to hear it.....
Matt Miller so true we had a cottage in the woods while growing up heard there lovely song all the time ...grew up in the 60s sad how it's a rare occasion now!!!!
I got lucky last year, there was one right out side of the camper for three or four evenings, then it moved a hundred yards away for a couple of evenings, guess he finally found a mate.
I am a 50s generation and we had them in Wisconsin in the "forest" across the street - turns out it was more like a heavily forested park than a forest - but what do "city kids" know any how - good thing both my grandpa's and aunt lived on farms - all kinds of birds - and critters
I came here to look up this bird. I lost someone in my life and had attached his ashes to my backpack before a trip. I was greeted by this lil fella who wouldn't shut up all night I couldn't get an ounce of sleep relentless for hoursss in the middle of the forest . I think he was mad I was near his nest. But after reading this poem I see it a lot differently. Thank you .. he was an ass and would have found it hilarious that I went to escape car alarms and noise in the city and was greeted by nature's car alarm
We used to hear these birds all the time around where I live when I was a kid. I remember going outside on my grandmother's porch and sitting there listening to them, it was one of my favorite things about going to her house.
I just have recently started hearing the Whippoorwill calls around my house. It made me so excited, as it has been many years since I have heard this joyful trill. I remember reading a book when I was young, I think it was called "My Side of the Mountain" and the author described the calls of the Whippoorwills and not long after that we were at our favorite campground with the same name as these birds, and I heard them calling in the woods nearby. I realized way back then, how much I loved hearing them. Sure they can be obnoxious since they never seem to shut up but if you enjoy nature you have to love the call of the Whippoorwills.
I love the soothing sound of whipoorwills on a warm summer night. I also love the sound of cicadas, both day and night, in the heat of summer. These sounds relax me so much!
When I lived in the country I loved falling a sleep to this bird, and when I went camping I wouldn't be able to fall asleep until I heard the bird sing lol.
Because in the beginning of the warm months the Whip-poor-will is either migrating or setting up to breed, arriving from Mexico and Central America where they spend the winter.
I remember my daddy pointing out this bird's song to me in the Ozarks of Missouri when I was a child back in the 1970's. Wooperwill... That's what I thought they were called because of his Ozarks accent. Sassafras tea sweetened with molasses Cornbread baked in the cast iron skillet in the old wood stove White Northern beans and hammocks Daddy playing the harmonica and reading us Little Golden Book stories like The Pokey Little Puppy The glad song of the wooperwill. It's in my heart still, Oh Missouri In the Ozark mountains In the log cabin that daddy built With his own two hands. I recall you Wooperwill Crying out to me In the light of the full moon. And I miss you daddy And your big buffalo plaid shirt, and Levi's and suspenders and your White's logging boots Your big stuffy beard You always smelt like sawdust and chain oil Garlic, spearmint and gasoline You were big and burly as a black bear But not even half as mean. I miss you daddy just like I miss the speckled Mottled fluffy wooperwill I miss you and your harmonica and Your tune.
Thank you for your testimony. This really tugged at the strings of my heart. My Dad passed away early this year and we used to sit on the front porch of our house and listen to the perfect evening sound of this birds call while he was still in his work clothes which smelled like penzoil and speed stick. Miss those days and would do anything to relive them. They still come out and sing all night long in the greenbelt on the edge of our street in Austin, TX.
Im so fortunate to still get to enjoy this precious bird. This video that plays the sound is ok. But anyone who has heard one outside their window at night knows its a much softer, calmer sound. It's relaxing and puts you in a trace with its song like sound. This video makes it sound so piercing and loud. And each bird has its own rhythm and sound. Love love love this unique bird. Something you definitely won't hear in the city or suburbs. I live in rural Kentucky. And this will hopefully be my bedtime song till the day i die :)
Andrea, I heard one for the first time in many many years, on April 6th, this year. About 5 weeks & 2 days ago. At 7:40 PM, & again at 7:43 PM. I live in town in O'boro KY. It was 3 houses down from my house. I'd Never heard one in town before. He called out twice, then stopped. He was probably migrating.
I have discovered these wonderful birds, along with hundreds of other creatures that had been lost since my childhood, in my new old cabin the Eastern hills of PA (near the Appalachian Trail). They ARE ground nesters (speeding their demise) but only sing when the light is just right... very early dawn and very late dusk for only 5 or 10 minutes... on most days of the month... But then! ...on the full moon! they will sing all night! If, and only if, the light is just right!
At our cabin in central PA, we hear them off and on all night long. Last weekend, we actually got to see one, when it landed on the power line going from the road to our cabin -- we could see its silhouette against the sky, and it sang, so we were certain it was a whippoorwill. The entire mountain was alive with the birds that night, all night long--we heard them when we took the dogs out to pee at 3am, and again when we got up just before 5am. We live about 35 miles south of the cabin, and don't hear them at all there.
Was hiking in Wharton State Forest and one of these creatures went on for about 45 minutes starting around 430am. First time i have heard such a long song from them
I remember as a kid laying in bed listening to these birds sing (1970's ) . We would hear them sing every night , never knew what the bird looked like.. Sad to say I haven't heard one in many years..thanks for the memories. Takes me back to a much better time in life.
Aah, that almost makes me cry for my childhood days in the quite little town of Wallingford in eastern Kentucky. We used to here them so often at night.
I hear these birds every single night. I love hearing them. Sometimes one is very, very close. I play this video to them and they respond back. We go back and forth. Sad for the people who don't get to hear them. I'm in the boonies in Northern NH near Canada.
I wanted to hear a whippoorwill tonight.Grew up in the country in South Carolina and took it for granted. Living in Atlanta now and this recording made me happy. I've never seen one but I have been very close to them while singing. Thanks for posting :)
I am 66 now as a young boy, about 10, I used to listen to the whippoorwill sing most of the night. I love that bird I miss their song I miss the country life. And I miss my grandmother where I used to stay in the country
I remember waking up early in the mornings for elementary school at my grandma's house and would always hear these when it was cool enough to have the windows open. Sadly, it's rare to hear these birds now. It has been quite a few years now since I have heard them.
That would be wonderful, Jo. You start, and get all of your liberal friends to join you. If all leftists follow your lead, we'll have a wonderful world in a couple generations. @@jopainting1668
One of these lives in my yard, we hear it every day at 4 AM it isn’t the best sound to listen to that early but from what I am reading I am very lucky to have one of these living in my yard.
I love hearing this!! I grew up in a holler in West Virginia and heard this almost every night. I moved away and miss this little bird singing so much.
When I'm turkey hunting in the morning this is one of my favorite parts of the hunt this bird in the morning if anyone could add a turkey gobble at the end of this video I would love you forever lol
Ohmygoodness how I miss this nightly call! Thank goodness I had a rural upbringing! I’d join in with the call! A few nights it was too quiet & I called out & they seem to respond to me! Maybe they were just ready; but I prefer to think the former is true! TY to whoever recorded &/OR posted this!
I grew up on a farm and always heard the whipperwills. Loved their sound. Just 0:45 recently I've heard one outside my house. Beautiful sound. Brings back memories from my childhood. I hope the one chirping now outside my house comes back for many years.
I used to hear them every night when my sister Marianne lived in Lehigh Acres Florida, I was visiting her and I would sit on her screened in back porch, on her swing, and listen to them singing every night!
+Timothy Scott I just heard one last night in Charleston around Edgewood. It's been over twenty years since I last heard them, growing up in McDowell County.
I live in the southern most part of Illinois. There's this place near Lick Creek we called Headless Barn where we use to party back in high school. It's out in the middle of nowhere. Great place to drink beer and blast music by a bonfire. Later in the night when things calm down, these little bastards would swoop down and tap you on the head. I guess they had allot of nests in that area. Since they only come out at night, I never seen what they actually looked like. They seem to have similar color and design in their feathers like our local owls.
Michael Connor"Deeper than the Holler" by Randy Travis, "If the World had a Front Porch" by Tracy Lawrence, and a few others that escape my mind at the moment.
Just listened to them. Very pretty lyrics, though country's not much my style. The Closest thing I listen to country is Indigo Girls and southern rock like The Allman Brothers. Thanks for sharing them though they were very nice and positive, which was uplifting. Keep your soul shining GrantH :)!
I grew up in San Diego and now live in Montana. Been hearing a lot about whip-poor-wills in country songs, and I finally had to see what they sound like. Even the first time hearing that song, I catch a glimpse of the nostalgia they conjure.
I heard a stock recording of this bird in Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (and Tears of the Kingdom as well) but I didn't realize until now that it was a whip-poor-will. It's heard in wooded areas so it makes sense.
That's because bird populations are declining rapidly all over the world. But take heart, I heard two whippoorwills this evening while hiking. Such precious creatures, they are.
If you ever want to hear a bird that won't shut the fuck up here you go lol in all honesty though I grew up in the southern US and I got to tell you I love these birds. There's nothing quite like spending an evening in the woods or a field listening to the sounds of a southern night and the whippoorwill is the highlight of the night mixed with the sweet smell of grass and cool dew falling around you
+ThunderOrb you done much traveling? I joined the military and for me it's these kinds of sounds and also verious smells that take me emotionally back home. it's a very soothing comforting feeling.
Oh my! The song of the Whip-poor-will.......instantly takes me to a surreal time and place, a place i need to return to. Thank you for sharing your paradise. It is perfect!
Someone else might have already said this but, I love that they have these birds chirping in the background in Breath of the Wild. They have these birds chirping in the background when its night time in the game and I love it. Everytime I hear it I always think "oo a whippoorwill" and it always make me happy and calms me down.
“More space, Willy, more space soon. Yer grows- an’ that grows faster. It’ll be ready to sarve ye soon, boy. Open the gates to Yog-Sothoth with the long chant that ye’ll find on page 751 of the complete edition, an’ then put a match to the prison. Fire from airth can’t burn it nohaow.”
Came here to confirm that I have one of these beauties singing in my backyard tonight in Central Florida to confirm. I haven’t heard a Whip-poor-will in many many years. How delightful.
You should travel to Eastern Kentucky, to the hills. I was just sitting on my moms porch listening to three of them singing to each other from different hillsides all around me. It was amazing.
Sadly, haven't heard these birds in too many years. As a child in lower southeast Oklahoma, I heard this all the time in the woods, especially when I was near a pond that my grandma and grandpa used to live. Judging by the responses in the comments, I'm definitely not the only one who feels this way.
Anyone else here because of reading the Dunwich Horror and the dozenth mention of whippoorwills finally made you want to know if it's a real bird and what it sounds like?
A cool sound, my grandfather was a great bird sound imitator. He would call them into the yard growing up , brings back a lot of memories with a sound you will remember for ever. Great video.
I've only had the pleasure of hearing whipoorwills twice. Once when I was a teenager on a camping trip and the first year I moved to the suburbs in 1999 I heard them every night that spring. I never heard them again. I moved to a more rural area now and was really hoping to hear them again, but no luck.. 🙁 I love their song. it's so haunting and beautiful!
This isnt the normal sounding Ones I hear early summer in FL. Around St Johns river have a much more soothing cadence. They sound exactly as the name sounds but with a lovely rhythm. I think I will record them this year and see if people appreciate it.
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this made me want to cry, nostalgia from when my great grandparents lived on their farm in the country and we'd sit and listen to them at night
Same here! Listened to them at my grandparents farm, such a great memory. Catching fireflies at dusk and not a care in the world. I miss those good old days!
Me too. Found memories.. haven't heard one in forty years.
I have just learn their existence in a novel of Lovecraft !
I’m glad you feel nostalgia. But I live in a cabin in north Georgia and these fuckers won’t let me sleep😂
I learned of their existence from a country song
When I was a kid, I fell asleep to this sound every night. Then suddenly I never heard one again, it's really sad, I miss them. They used to sit on our porch and sing so loud. Now I'd kill to hear one around my place again. That was 25 years ago.
@blueBeanieboos TV I suspect deforestation but don't really know.
Spring time in the Virginia valleys will do your souls some good then!!
I have one live in mountains of north Ga
Living in a very rural Orlando subdivision, have one or whipoorwills every nite now for past few wks--1st time ever in 5 yrs I have lived here & son & family never in 10 yrs of living here-- my 2 young grandsons enthralled with this new birdsong🙂
I have one that hangs out at my cabin at night and it's extremely loud
Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome I could cry
I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The Moon just went behind the clouds
To hide his head and cry
Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die
That means he's lost the will to live
Im so lonesome i could cry
The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I’m so lonesome I could cry
One of the worlds greatest song writers. Too bad, he was taken too soon.
RIP Hank
Dang, I remember not being able to sleep because of the annoying sound. We moved to the suburbs and I haven't heard one in about 4 years and I miss that sound so much. You don't realize how beautiful their call is til its gone. I miss the country so much
@Bali Breeze all night
I miss the suburbs in my home state after my dad dragged me to the new house now that little punk is ruining my sleep!😡
@@pz20jacobcouttsrogue the grass is always greener I guess lol
I've been living in the country for 8 years now and I only heard them my very first year. My grandparents and I would listen to them at night too. But I sure do miss there song. 😢😢😢
Get yourself a fan or some headphones... I don't know how anybody sleeps without a fan There's too many noises constantly just in a house.
While now living in the city, my grandfather used to make the sound and told how he would always here it at night growing up in the country in northern Wisconsin. I was eager to hear one myself one day. He has since passed. I am now middle aged. Last year on a bike trip, I Airbnb'd a remote cottage in northern Michigan, and as I relaxed by the campfire one evening, there it was, the call of the whippoorwill piecered the night's silence. I recognized it immediately and was in awe. Grandpa came to say hi as I thought. It was magical. The only time I've heard one. I'll never forget it. 💫
Yes they're up in some parts of Northern Michigan. Only towards summer though and the beginning of summer.
That makes me want to cry. I haven't heard one of these songs since I was a boy 30+ years ago and I'd get sung to sleep by a whipoorwhil.
I hear it every summer…
Myles Standish State Forest has them singing all night…
Growing up in the rural countryside of Missouri this was all you heard on summer nights. Hearing this brings back so many happy memories of late night bon fires and camping on the river.
absolutely feels like the ozarks to my ears. the soundtrack to many nights of canned stew, smores and folklore on the river
I remember them singing when I was a very young child, It's one of the most beautiful songs a bird can sing. Reminds my of the good times I experienced growing up.❤ I'm 64 and so very appreciated.🐧❤️
Knowing what these birds sound like now, The Dunwich Horror is that much more disconcerting a story.
+TehHausofUsher Same here
the song is much more haunting in person
Cool, I love Dunwich Horror!
I looked up their song because I’m currently listening to the audiobook version 🙃
By the great HPL. I have loved everything he wrote.
What's with the hate? These birds are very soothing, it's better than hearing those ear-assaulting cicadas screech all day during summer
And crows, fuck crows
Oh yeah. And June beetles, but everyone hates those
Not soothing in the early AM for 5 hours straight. Gets pretty annoying after 5 minutes of the same sound over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again
To each his own I guess. I like the sound of cicadas in the beginning of summer, but by July they get on my f***ing nerves. But I always love whippoorwills
Yeah, to each their own haha. I really don't mind a lot of birds. Just the Wippoorwill goes on too much and too early for my liking.
Having read a lot of the comments, I'm surprised at the hate! The "annoying, loud, non-stop" Whipoorwills that people are talking about must be from another part of the country other than the Georgia mountains. This is where I grew up hearing them. They only "whipoorwilled" just a few times and always soundex faraway to me.... they were never loud or obnoxious and their sound was slower and more graceful than the one in this video. I've always thought they sound soulful and kind of forlorn.... and as I've said in another comment, they sound haunting.... but not in a bad or scary way. But in a soothing, comforting way. I thought I heard one tonight... just once.... and it took me back to my childhood. I can't remember when, before tonight, the last time I heard one. I guess because I live in a damn town instead of the country. I love hearing them. In the summertime in the country I loved the birds I'd hear. During the bright and sunny day while out playing I'd hear bob whites, occasionally a turtle dove.... and then at night is when I had the pleasure of hearing the whipoorwills and catching lightening bugs. Nostalgia has set in.... *sigh*
Heather Leigh I grew up in the sixties had a cottage in the woods (my parents did) we would go in summer on vacations ....loved there song.....
I hear them every evening in the Summer, around 9:00-9:30, in Kentucky :)
It sounds like you heard a chuck-will's-widow. Look up a video and see if that was it. They're similar to whip-poor-wills but larger and browner.
Haters will always be haters - ignore them and enjoy the beauty of nature -
Nature gives us earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, tsunamis, etc. LOL. Enjoy. @@makkuehl7597
I MISS THIS SOUND AS A CHILD GROWING UP IN THE COUNTRY.. IT WAS SO CALMING, WHILE MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD UNLIMITED STORIES AROUND THE FIRE! ❤LIFE WAS SO SIMPLE BACK THEN.
Ironically, according to folklore... hearing this sound means "impending death". I remember moving to the country as an early teen and the first time I heard this, it kinda creeped me out
The Whippoorwill Song is a blessing.
I’ll never forget listening to the forest coming alive around me and my grandpa as we walked into the forest on a cool spring morning. First the robin, then the cardinal, chickadees and titmice following, and then a pair of barred owls calling back and forth, and finally the whip poor will broke through it all with this song, that i’d never heard before and will never forget.
I have been listing to this bird for two weeks in the forest behind my house. I lived here for ten years never heard it before. Its the so peaceful.
Hopefully they are coming back
A common sound while growing up, sadly they are becoming rare.
Not where I live
They are an endangered species. Even though they say its not
Some areas still have plenty. Maybe consult some local birdwatchers or look on Facebook for a birding network for your state. They could tell you when and where to go to for a chance of finding them.
It is all about habitat, if young forest habitat is not present, neither are these birds along with a host of other species.
🤔 anoing things are all over the place in Tn.
I live in Missouri, just sitting out on my front porch, on the porch swing,,,drinking sweet tea. Listening to the whipperwill call to his mate. She answers back. It's hot in the upper nineties and humid out. Swing and fighting mosquitos,,, came on to see what this whipperwill looks like.
I live in my folks ole home place. So blessed.
When I worked on Cape Cod last summer I could hear one of these sweet birds singing at dusk every night. Feel very lucky to have this memory.
Plus, it is delightful that the bird is singing and tweeting all through the day.
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Yes a whipoorwill on a summer night is pretty amazing. Like a loon at sunrise. ❤
To all you 60's and 70's kids that remember these sounds....they are still alive...but you have to go out where there is no urban noise to hear it.....
Matt Miller so true we had a cottage in the woods while growing up heard there lovely song all the time ...grew up in the 60s sad how it's a rare occasion now!!!!
Same thing if you want to see stars in a nights sky.
I got lucky last year, there was one right out side of the camper for three or four evenings, then it moved a hundred yards away for a couple of evenings, guess he finally found a mate.
I am a 50s generation and we had them in Wisconsin in the "forest" across the street - turns out it was more like a heavily forested park than a forest - but what do
"city kids" know any how - good thing both my grandpa's and aunt lived on farms - all kinds of birds - and critters
I'm lucky. TN hills. Hear them all the time :) also I'm an 80s baby
That sound made summer nights complete sitting on the porch and just listening to that wonderful bird.Oh such great memories.
Hearing the whip-poor-will's song is a sign that right here, right now, all is good with the world.
When the long grass enfolds you, that’s me holding you tight.
When the Whippoorwill sings, that’s me whispering, “Night, night.”
I came here to look up this bird. I lost someone in my life and had attached his ashes to my backpack before a trip. I was greeted by this lil fella who wouldn't shut up all night I couldn't get an ounce of sleep relentless for hoursss in the middle of the forest . I think he was mad I was near his nest. But after reading this poem I see it a lot differently. Thank you .. he was an ass and would have found it hilarious that I went to escape car alarms and noise in the city and was greeted by nature's car alarm
NAHHH BRO I actually got that reference!! Chucky's mom from Rugrats!!
@@iamwhoiam7887 ?
We used to hear these birds all the time around where I live when I was a kid. I remember going outside on my grandmother's porch and sitting there listening to them, it was one of my favorite things about going to her house.
I just have recently started hearing the Whippoorwill calls around my house. It made me so excited, as it has been many years since I have heard this joyful trill. I remember reading a book when I was young, I think it was called "My Side of the Mountain" and the author described the calls of the Whippoorwills and not long after that we were at our favorite campground with the same name as these birds, and I heard them calling in the woods nearby. I realized way back then, how much I loved hearing them. Sure they can be obnoxious since they never seem to shut up but if you enjoy nature you have to love the call of the Whippoorwills.
I love the soothing sound of whipoorwills on a warm summer night.
I also love the sound of cicadas, both day and night, in the heat of summer.
These sounds relax me so much!
When I lived in the country I loved falling a sleep to this bird, and when I went camping I wouldn't be able to fall asleep until I heard the bird sing lol.
There's an old saying hear in the South: "You can go barefooted when you hear the whippoorwill call."
What does that mean
@@killerix292 It means the ground is warm enough to go walking outside barefooted.
Because in the beginning of the warm months the Whip-poor-will is either migrating or setting up to breed, arriving from Mexico and Central America where they spend the winter.
Yeah until you step on a rattler
I'm so lonesome I could cry.
Do ittt
Hey u need a friend?
I hope you’re not lonesome anymore
It’s a Hank Williams song.
@@randythomas6874 Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome I could cry
I remember my daddy pointing out this bird's song to me in the Ozarks of Missouri when I was a child back in the 1970's. Wooperwill... That's what I thought they were called because of his Ozarks accent.
Sassafras tea sweetened with molasses
Cornbread baked in the cast iron skillet in the old wood stove
White Northern beans and hammocks
Daddy playing the harmonica and reading us Little Golden Book stories like The Pokey Little Puppy
The glad song of the wooperwill.
It's in my heart still,
Oh Missouri
In the Ozark mountains
In the log cabin that daddy built
With his own two hands.
I recall you Wooperwill
Crying out to me
In the light of the full moon.
And I miss you daddy
And your big buffalo plaid shirt, and Levi's and suspenders and your White's logging boots
Your big stuffy beard
You always smelt like sawdust and chain oil
Garlic, spearmint and gasoline
You were big and burly as a black bear
But not even half as mean.
I miss you daddy
just like I miss the speckled
Mottled fluffy wooperwill
I miss you and your harmonica and
Your tune.
Thank you for your testimony. This really tugged at the strings of my heart. My Dad passed away early this year and we used to sit on the front porch of our house and listen to the perfect evening sound of this birds call while he was still in his work clothes which smelled like penzoil and speed stick. Miss those days and would do anything to relive them. They still come out and sing all night long in the greenbelt on the edge of our street in Austin, TX.
I grew up in the Ozarks as well. I remember lying in bed at night listening to their calls.
glad it brought back memories for you.
I never heard one that screeched continously like this. The ones I heard in the mtns of TN were mournful but pleasantly soothing.
It may have been a Chucks Will Widow.
During the summer I go outside and listen to these birds. I can hear them every night, they go on for a while. It is so soothing to me.
Im so fortunate to still get to enjoy this precious bird. This video that plays the sound is ok. But anyone who has heard one outside their window at night knows its a much softer, calmer sound. It's relaxing and puts you in a trace with its song like sound. This video makes it sound so piercing and loud. And each bird has its own rhythm and sound. Love love love this unique bird. Something you definitely won't hear in the city or suburbs. I live in rural Kentucky. And this will hopefully be my bedtime song till the day i die :)
Andrea, I heard one for the first time in many many years, on April 6th, this year. About 5 weeks & 2 days ago. At 7:40 PM, & again at 7:43 PM. I live in town in O'boro KY. It was 3 houses down from my house. I'd Never heard one in town before. He called out twice, then stopped. He was probably migrating.
Listened to this beautiful call alms with bull frogs every summer night miss them being on my farm. Not sure what happened to them.
It really is a softer and more soothing sound as I recall. I never hear it anymore. You are so lucky.
I have discovered these wonderful birds, along with hundreds of other creatures that had been lost since my childhood, in my new old cabin the Eastern hills of PA (near the Appalachian Trail). They ARE ground nesters (speeding their demise) but only sing when the light is just right... very early dawn and very late dusk for only 5 or 10 minutes... on most days of the month... But then! ...on the full moon! they will sing all night! If, and only if, the light is just right!
At our cabin in central PA, we hear them off and on all night long. Last weekend, we actually got to see one, when it landed on the power line going from the road to our cabin -- we could see its silhouette against the sky, and it sang, so we were certain it was a whippoorwill. The entire mountain was alive with the birds that night, all night long--we heard them when we took the dogs out to pee at 3am, and again when we got up just before 5am. We live about 35 miles south of the cabin, and don't hear them at all there.
I love there song soothing!!!!!
Was hiking in Wharton State Forest and one of these creatures went on for about 45 minutes starting around 430am. First time i have heard such a long song from them
I remember as a kid laying in bed listening to these birds sing (1970's ) . We would hear them sing every night , never knew what the bird looked like..
Sad to say I haven't heard one in many years..thanks for the memories. Takes me back to a much better time in life.
Aah, that almost makes me cry for my childhood days in the quite little town of Wallingford in eastern Kentucky. We used to here them so often at night.
I love to hear these birds. I used to hear them all the time, but not nearly as often these days.
Thank you ABC 🌎
I camped in wisconsin and these guys kept me up all night.
Used to hear these often around Bangor MI & up north in Newaygo County MI.
I hear these birds every single night. I love hearing them. Sometimes one is very, very close. I play this video to them and they respond back. We go back and forth. Sad for the people who don't get to hear them. I'm in the boonies in Northern NH near Canada.
This should be a 12-hour loop!
This gives me chills. The southern song bird, takes me back to my childhood in southern Alabama
I wanted to hear a whippoorwill tonight.Grew up in the country in South Carolina and took it for granted. Living in Atlanta now and this recording made me happy. I've never seen one but I have been very close to them while singing. Thanks for posting :)
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Man I miss hearing them outside my house at night they were always my favorite sound
I am 66 now as a young boy, about 10, I used to listen to the whippoorwill sing most of the night. I love that bird I miss their song I miss the country life. And I miss my grandmother where I used to stay in the country
I remember waking up early in the mornings for elementary school at my grandma's house and would always hear these when it was cool enough to have the windows open. Sadly, it's rare to hear these birds now. It has been quite a few years now since I have heard them.
I remember hearing this a lot as a child (90s) and now I barely ever hear them anymore.
It's because there are too many damn humans now. Not everyone needs to not only have a kid but 2, 3+ kids. Need to start spay and neutering humans.
That would be wonderful, Jo. You start, and get all of your liberal friends to join you. If all leftists follow your lead, we'll have a wonderful world in a couple generations. @@jopainting1668
Jo Painting no it’s because these birds are the real life incarnations of alarm clocks and should be smashed on the head the same 🤗
Beautiful song, I listen to mine every night
We have heard a Whippoorwill in Northern Michigan for the last couple of years. Usually in the night but sometimes early morning too.
One of these lives in my yard, we hear it every day at 4 AM it isn’t the best sound to listen to that early but from what I am reading I am very lucky to have one of these living in my yard.
I love hearing this!! I grew up in a holler in West Virginia and heard this almost every night. I moved away and miss this little bird singing so much.
When I'm turkey hunting in the morning this is one of my favorite parts of the hunt this bird in the morning if anyone could add a turkey gobble at the end of this video I would love you forever lol
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Ohmygoodness how I miss this nightly call! Thank goodness I had a rural upbringing! I’d join in with the call! A few nights it was too quiet & I called out & they seem to respond to me! Maybe they were just ready; but I prefer to think the former is true! TY to whoever recorded &/OR posted this!
So beautiful, yet so haunting.
Songbird if the night in Georgia and Florida. Beautiful sound to grow up hearing
Love the sound of these birds. Means summer is almost here in Maine when I can hear them in the distance.
I hear them almost daily with dusk and early morning shows 🤣 here in Western Maine!
I grew up on a farm and always heard the whipperwills. Loved their sound. Just 0:45 recently I've heard one outside my house. Beautiful sound. Brings back memories from my childhood. I hope the one chirping now outside my house comes back for many years.
The Dunwich Horror Brought me here. That is one creepy story. The way whip-poor-wills sound and look, fits Lovecraftian horror perfectly.
Same.
haha ..there was one found in my neighborhood recently that injured its wing.. i love this comment!!
Voldemordred Riddle The sound is almost pulsating, like some alien vocal organ
Same! I thought " what the heck is a whippoorwill? now you're just making words up, HP"
Yeah, I can totally hear this working in the story.
I used to hear them every night when my sister Marianne lived in Lehigh Acres Florida, I was visiting her and I would sit on her screened in back porch, on her swing, and listen to them singing every night!
Where I hear this bird in West Virginia he only goes 3 or 4 times right in the middle of the quiet summer night (2am) then goes back to silence.
+Timothy Scott I just heard one last night in Charleston around Edgewood. It's been over twenty years since I last heard them, growing up in McDowell County.
Have you heard him recently? I live in Northern WV, Harrison County..I haven't heard any for 30 yrs or more.
Must of failed to catch a soul.
Timothy Scott that's been my experience as well.... and it is slow, kind of quiet, haunting sound to me.
I hear him every night starting at 9:30pm, thenat 5:00am. EXTREMELY annoying bird--can't sleep because of it.
Thank you for the whipper..recording, brought me to happy tears, remembering time in the woods, way back when.
SO BEAUTIFUL SWEET LITTLE WHIP POOR WILL
Many nights, I sat under a ceder tree, pitch black waiting for a pig to show up. All the while I had this beautiful bird keeping me company
:-) one was just singing to me this morning. Very pertty sound!!
Loved hearing them at night on my grandparents farm ❤
When the whipperwill
whipers in the wind
the wind can't whipper back.
OH NICE AND CHUBBY BABY!
Nice Animaniacs reference there lol.
I live in the southern most part of Illinois. There's this place near Lick Creek we called Headless Barn where we use to party back in high school. It's out in the middle of nowhere. Great place to drink beer and blast music by a bonfire. Later in the night when things calm down, these little bastards would swoop down and tap you on the head. I guess they had allot of nests in that area. Since they only come out at night, I never seen what they actually looked like. They seem to have similar color and design in their feathers like our local owls.
I've come here after hearing this bird being referenced in seemingly dozens of country songs from the 80's and 90's, haha.
+GrantH same for me ha
+GrantH I came for similar reasons, Jim Croce lyrics. "I Got A Name." What's another good song you've heard with it referenced?
Michael Connor"Deeper than the Holler" by Randy Travis, "If the World had a Front Porch" by Tracy Lawrence, and a few others that escape my mind at the moment.
Just listened to them. Very pretty lyrics, though country's not much my style. The Closest thing I listen to country is Indigo Girls and southern rock like The Allman Brothers. Thanks for sharing them though they were very nice and positive, which was uplifting. Keep your soul shining GrantH :)!
+20cher09 Cool, I will check them out. Thanks kind stranger! Keep being your awesome self!
I grew up in San Diego and now live in Montana. Been hearing a lot about whip-poor-wills in country songs, and I finally had to see what they sound like. Even the first time hearing that song, I catch a glimpse of the nostalgia they conjure.
I am playing this video for the ones who like to sing in my yard at night. I hope they think I am a friend.
Woke to them as a kid when I became a teen I was annoyed but now I'm longing to hear them again.
I heard a stock recording of this bird in Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (and Tears of the Kingdom as well) but I didn't realize until now that it was a whip-poor-will. It's heard in wooded areas so it makes sense.
Thank you for this song! I miss hearing them, I haven't heard them in at least 20 years.
That's because bird populations are declining rapidly all over the world. But take heart, I heard two whippoorwills this evening while hiking. Such precious creatures, they are.
I grew up in the early 2000s in the woods. Every night I would hear these birds. Such a beautiful call
If you ever want to hear a bird that won't shut the fuck up here you go lol in all honesty though I grew up in the southern US and I got to tell you I love these birds. There's nothing quite like spending an evening in the woods or a field listening to the sounds of a southern night and the whippoorwill is the highlight of the night mixed with the sweet smell of grass and cool dew falling around you
+Ryan Ramsey I'm a fan of the summer cicadas, too. I don't know why, but the cicadas going at dusk is such a comforting sound to me.
+ThunderOrb you done much traveling? I joined the military and for me it's these kinds of sounds and also verious smells that take me emotionally back home. it's a very soothing comforting feeling.
Oh my! The song of the Whip-poor-will.......instantly takes me to a surreal time and place, a place i need to return to. Thank you for sharing your paradise. It is perfect!
''They didn't get him.''
One of my favorite night sounds in the woods around me. Wasn’t sure it was a whip-or-will but the sound itself tells you who it is. I love that.
Thank you! Such a WONDERFUL song my God created for us to enjoy!!!
Reminds of those calm nights in Hateno. Good times.
"The Whippoorwills in the Hills" story in August Derleth's collection titled "the Mask of Cthulhu" is my entry key.
No hate coming from me. I hear them every night in Hiddenite NC.
I use to hear them a bunch in the late 90s up till around 2001. I haven't heard them in a long time.
Someone else might have already said this but, I love that they have these birds chirping in the background in Breath of the Wild. They have these birds chirping in the background when its night time in the game and I love it. Everytime I hear it I always think "oo a whippoorwill" and it always make me happy and calms me down.
“More space, Willy, more space soon. Yer grows- an’ that grows faster. It’ll be ready to sarve ye soon, boy. Open the gates to Yog-Sothoth with the long chant that ye’ll find on page 751 of the complete edition, an’ then put a match to the prison. Fire from airth can’t burn it nohaow.”
Came here to confirm that I have one of these beauties singing in my backyard tonight in Central Florida to confirm. I haven’t heard a Whip-poor-will in many many years. How delightful.
I have spent months looking for “that one bird sound from breath of the wild” and i’vE FINALLY FOUND IT🎉🎉🎉
You should travel to Eastern Kentucky, to the hills. I was just sitting on my moms porch listening to three of them singing to each other from different hillsides all around me. It was amazing.
Haha, sometimes I can't tell if the sounds are from the game or actual Whipoorwills outside of my house. It's awesome.
This brings back so many memories of summers spent at my grandparents in Arkansas..
It's actually sort of catchy
Musical Stranger h
My daddy and my place of birth brought me here. Love you Ozarks.
Just heard my first one in years - near Sardis Lake in Mississippi! Too Cool!
Sadly, haven't heard these birds in too many years. As a child in lower southeast Oklahoma, I heard this all the time in the woods, especially when I was near a pond that my grandma and grandpa used to live. Judging by the responses in the comments, I'm definitely not the only one who feels this way.
I can definitely see someone remixing this into some dope dance music.
As a kid I would sit on the front porch with my Grandparents at night and listen to the Whip-poor-Wills sing, Wish I could go back to those days!
Anyone else here because of reading the Dunwich Horror and the dozenth mention of whippoorwills finally made you want to know if it's a real bird and what it sounds like?
A cool sound, my grandfather was a great bird sound imitator. He would call them into the yard growing up , brings back a lot of memories with a sound you will remember for ever. Great video.
Sooo cute.! I've never seen or heard one in my life. We don't have them here.
I've only had the pleasure of hearing whipoorwills twice. Once when I was a teenager on a camping trip and the first year I moved to the suburbs in 1999 I heard them every night that spring. I never heard them again. I moved to a more rural area now and was really hoping to hear them again, but no luck.. 🙁
I love their song. it's so haunting and beautiful!
I remember back in the late 40's and early 50's how I loved to hear them. I miss them now as I never hear them. If anyone does where are they?
Go to a mature forest and camp.
Deep in the woods
Wayne, Wv, in my backyard
National Forests
Bland ,Missouri,80 acres wooded,with a lake.
This isnt the normal sounding Ones I hear early summer in FL. Around St Johns river have a much more soothing cadence. They sound exactly as the name sounds but with a lovely rhythm. I think I will record them this year and see if people appreciate it.