The recent poorwill comments and photos reminded me of a once-in-a-lifetime experience on June 3, 2004! I lived on Bear Mt at the time and my friends Carmon Slater and Donald Randall, who still live on Stagecoach Rd in Evergreen, called me to say “their poorwill” was trapped in the garage window. I drove down and learned that the poorwill had tried so hard to get out of the screened casement window that it tore the screen and then would get stuck in between the screen and the glass. They extracted it carefully and took it outside and set it on a boulder. Other than some feather damage, it seemed ok and soon flew up the south slope of Bergen Peak on their land where the poorwills nest every year. They hear them at dawn and dusk from mid-May through the summer. This year they came back and were first heard on May 17, 2014. Donald shared these photos that he took then. They provide a rare and unfortunate look at the spread wings and tail.
http://www.kayniyo.com/trip_Unusual_Birds.htm
Kay
Kayleen A. Niyo, Ph.D.
Niyo Scientific Communications
5651 Garnet St.
Golden, CO 80403
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