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Seems about a month and a half early for middle Georgia. Any one else hearing them or whip-o-wills?
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Heard my first rain crow
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It'll be awhile here. Our whippoorwills are pretty much gone around here now. Don't know what happened to them. Usually about mid-summer before you start hearing rain crows. The whippoorwills (actually mostly chuck-will's widows) usually start singing on my place on the SC/GA line about mid-April.
NE GA Pappy
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I heard a whippoorwill the first of last week. Mighty early for them around here. I usually don't hear them until late April. I have a split rail fence that runs from my side porch down to the basement drive. They normally sit on that fence and wake me up at night.
Oddly, even though I haven't heard a whippoorwill around my place here in years, there has been a mockingbird in my yard making whippoorwill calls the last couple days?
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They show up around here north Hall about the 20th of April. Just saw my 1st hummingbird a few minutes ago, strangely he was chasing a cardinal.
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Usually the rain crows (southern cuckoo) don’t normally show up till after the catalpa trees leaf out. Mine are just budding out.
I should be hearing chuckwill`s here anytime now. It`ll be a little bit longer before the rain crows are here. Once they are though, I`ll see and hear them every day. Hear em a lot more than I see em. My Uncle used to give me a nickel apiece for every rain crow I shot out of his catawber tree.
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I had quail in a pen last summer for training my bird dog puppy. I had a mockingbird just today making the bobwhite whistle. It was sitting in a cedar right beside me letting it ring.
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the leaves on mine are about the size of a half dollar
Big7
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I know what a whip-o-will is. Have no idea what a rain crow is. Could that be regional or a bird by another name??
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Nevermind..? NE GA Pappy answered. I need to look into that..?
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I’ve had hummingbirds about a week now. Being seeing lighting bugs for about three weeks steadily.
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Rain crows are a migratory bird that follows the caterpillar hatches north on its migration. Never seen them eat tent worms though.
How many of ya`ll can tell the difference between a whippoorwill and a chuckwill`s widow? 
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Got a mockingbird around the house now, as I do every year. She chirps and carries on all day and night. I don't think she ever sleeps. She's always carrying on.
How would y'all like to have a lyrebird around your house? One of the coolest birds of all!
These birds crack me up.
Listen for a camera going off, a car alarm, a laser gun, some hammering, and all kinds of different sounds.
How would y'all like to have a lyrebird around your house? One of the coolest birds of all!
These birds crack me up.
Listen for a camera going off, a car alarm, a laser gun, some hammering, and all kinds of different sounds.
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Hmmmm. Not sure.How many of ya`ll can tell the difference between a whippoorwill and a chuckwill`s widow?
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How many of ya`ll can tell the difference between a whippoorwill and a chuckwill`s widow?
I’m not sure I can visually as very seldom do I see one in the daytime. Their calls are very similar but the first note quickly lets you know which one is about.
Yellow-billed cuckoo.
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