Chuck-will's Widow?

[Charles Duncan]

The past few years there's been a Chuck-will's Widow on Valley Road in Orland (Hancock Co), and so far one report on eBird this year. Does anyone have suggestions about how to go about finding this bird--specifically where and when? Any other reports from this year? We'll be in the area this coming weekend.

Thanks,

--Charles

[Glenn Hodgkins]

We had success in June 2018, parking at the north gated access point for Valley Rd (see link to list) where you can park a couple of cars, at 8 pm and walking 1.5 miles down the gravel road to the spot everyone was hearing it that year. It started calling at about 8:45 pm and sang regularly. Not sure if it's been in the same spot last year and this. It's certainly easy to hear if it's there, we could hear it at least 1/4 mile away on the way out. Good luck!

https://ebird.org/atlasme/checklist/S46494344

Glenn Hodgkins

[Rich MacDonald]

Hello Charles! We walked into Great Pond Mountain Wildlands looking for Common Nighthawk and Whip-poor-will and had no expectation of finding Chuck-will's-widow. We went in from the South Gate and walked about 2.5 miles up the Valley Road to Mushrall Meadow. We then sat around the campfire ring (no fire) and listened to the birds for about 30 minutes. At 10:00, I picked up the Chuck-will's-widow calling fairly close. Good luck!


Richard MacDonald
The Natural History Center
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[Charles Duncan]

Many, many thanks to the several people who wrote with suggestions and even maps for how to look for CWWI. We'll probably give it a try Saturday evening and will certainly post here with how we do and where we dood it.