Bart Whiteman of Hilton Head Island writes that something important is missing from his life this summer. He’s not hearing any whippoorwills. “I heard one in March,” he said. “It is the sound of ...

It's open door season on the Gulf Coast. It has been for several weeks. That means I leave the front door and the back door open as long as my wife will let me, and the windows stay open all night ...

When I was a child in the upstairs bedroom of my grandparents’ farm, I would lie in bed and listen to the whippoorwill calling from the nearby forest. There would be a pause and then it would call ...

This is the time of the year when you can listen out for the whippoorwills at dusk if you are in the right place. That means you must go where there is peace and quiet, where the traffic cacophony ...

In the darkness of the middle of Wednesday afternoon, I heard a bird call just outside my window. It was a call that always perks up my ears. However, I typically only hear it at dusk or after dark.

The Whippoorwill. That strange bird that you rarely see because it seems to come out only at night. That powerful whistle that seems to pronounce its name. But, boy what a memory it stirs. I grew up ...