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Re: Chuck-will's-widow



We heard a Chuck-wills-widow at a lake near Lake Lure in Rutherford
Co. (NC) on Aug. 28 - it was the highest elevation we have ever heard
them in NC (about 1000 ft).

Tim Lewis, Asheville, NC
TLewis@buncombe.nc.us


> The pattern I've observed in my area is that Chucks call
> regularly until about early July or so.  Then shut up, with
> a little bit of calling again about the end of August-first
> week of September. ( I once heard one on 19 September.)
>
> Or at least that seems to be the way it is.  I'll admit I'm
> not out in the woods much in the heat of summer.
> However, others here have told me that they've
> observed the same pattern.
>
>                                        John Fussell