My first introduction to the Whip-poor-will was on a Best of Hank Williams CD I bought from HMV as a teenager, the bird opens up the first verse of “probably the saddest song” Elvis ever heard.
I genuinely don't think I'll be able to hear them again without picturing a very farty person walking up stairs, and not only that but it has the timbre of a particular persons farts so I am going to forever picture them.
Oh Chris Packham. And your Mum. And farts ascending....a joyous post.
My biological father was a musician and there’s an eerie story about a song he once recorded about a Whippoorwill. I never met my dad but I have his music and this song is quite comforting and haunting. https://open.substack.com/pub/unfixed/p/dark-mystery?r=3lmmp&utm_medium=ios
Absolutely losing it here at the description of the woodcock call.
I genuinely don't think I'll be able to hear them again without picturing a very farty person walking up stairs, and not only that but it has the timbre of a particular persons farts so I am going to forever picture them.
oh god