[Rockhounds] Accommodations

[Jeanette Wimpee]

Wow! All the years I've been camping and loved listening to the 
whip-poor-wills calling, I've never seen one. Don't even know what they look 
like.
Jeanette


> That first evening we sat around our campfire admiring the stars,
> talking, and listening to the calls of the whip-poor-wills around us. We
> noticed one particular bird kept getting closer. Whip-poor-wills tend to
> visit a sequence of stations each night and call as they identify their
> territory.
>
> Then my almost teenaged daughter froze, as did the rest of us. A
> whip-poor-will had landed on her head. It gave its call a couple times,
> and flew off. It was my first encounter with this nocturnal bird. None
> of us will ever forget it.
>
> Kreigh
>