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Title: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: drenalinld on May 14, 2012, 11:19:10 AM
I have become arch enemies with a whippoorwill in the last two weeks. I have at least a half dozen whippoorwills on my place that sing all night long. I rather enjoy hearing them at a distance, but when they get too close when you are trying to hear a turkey or trying to sleep it can cause a man to go crazy!!! One particular bird has began spending most of his night every night sitting in my wife's flower bed about six feet from my bedroom window and calling for hours on end. Between the phone calls I get from work every night, a one-year old and a four-year old that do not sleep well coupled with the endless "whip-poor-will" at an uncanny volume, my wife and I are getting no sleep.

Does anyone know a way to deter/discourage this bird from roosting there? I can run it off and it will be right back before the garage door closes. Any suggestions????
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: busta biggun on May 14, 2012, 01:36:31 PM
I read that the only thing that shuts them up is light. So maybe putting up some yard lights would help.
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: barry on May 14, 2012, 02:02:07 PM
Maybe one of those solar lights that stick in the ground
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: BC on May 14, 2012, 02:08:12 PM
A 2 3/4 in dove load will work perfectly.
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: Skeeterbait on May 14, 2012, 03:12:30 PM
Hmmm.... that is a serious situation.  Sounds like a new suppressed 22 cal AR platform with infrared night vision scope and infrared illuminator with laser backup sighting is needed.

If the wife won't go for that you can always turn a sprinkler on him.
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: vaturkey on May 14, 2012, 04:01:04 PM

Hey David

Chaz Bono did a dance on dancing with the stars & it was called THE WHIPPORWILL. I'm pretty sure if you call him / her you could get your problem solved.

  Good Luck & Sleep Tight !     :funnyturkey:


       vaturkey     :newmascot:
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: redarrow on May 14, 2012, 04:23:12 PM
Quote from: vaturkey on May 14, 2012, 04:01:04 PM

Hey David

Chaz Bono did a dance on dancing with the stars & it was called THE WHIPPORWILL. I'm pretty sure if you call him / her you could get your problem solved.

  Good Luck & Sleep Tight !     :funnyturkey:


       vaturkey     :newmascot:

Change Boner !????
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: savduck on May 14, 2012, 04:59:11 PM
A kitty cat with collar and chained.
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: remmy1187 on May 14, 2012, 05:28:08 PM
Hevi-shot has a new load out called dead whipporwill!
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: VaTuRkStOmPeR on May 14, 2012, 06:46:27 PM
Pellet gun if the light option is impractical.
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: drenalinld on May 14, 2012, 07:18:09 PM
Quote from: VaTuRkStOmPeR on May 14, 2012, 06:46:27 PM
Pellet gun if the light option is impractical.

I have missed twice with a pellet gun at 30-40 yards when he flew up in a tree shooting off-hand holding the light and forearm in the same hand. I am deadly on skunks, possums, and coons this way. Since the misses he has not landed there again as I was toting 12 ga!
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: drenalinld on May 14, 2012, 09:59:09 PM
PROBLEM SOLVED!!!
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: Clif Owen on May 14, 2012, 10:02:08 PM
Hmmm...thinking I know how that ended....
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: Shotgun on May 14, 2012, 10:12:32 PM
Lets see some pics  ;D  Im not sure I have ever seen a whipporwill  :-\
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: drenalinld on May 14, 2012, 10:20:37 PM
No pics. They are protected song birds. I just scared him away for a really LONG time.
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: vaturkey on May 14, 2012, 10:37:23 PM
Quote from: Shotgun on May 14, 2012, 10:12:32 PM
Lets see some pics  ;D  Im not sure I have ever seen a whipporwill  :-\


    :TooFunny:
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: BOFF on May 14, 2012, 10:41:49 PM
I'd delete the thread.



Glad the problem is far away.


God Bless,
David B.
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: nannas guide on May 16, 2012, 08:24:00 PM
If he is really bothering you, you can package him up and send him up here to me. I haven't heard one in years and would enjoy him out my window.

Please leave return address incase I change my mind!
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: drenalinld on May 16, 2012, 10:00:22 PM
I love to hear them in the distance. It's different 15' away from your ear hours on end.  Believe me!
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: tiggere on May 16, 2012, 10:13:44 PM
I got to close to a nest one morning while turkey hunting...two of them suckers dive bombed me until I left...I had never seen one either so had no idea what was swooping down at me in the dark as I walked down the trail...them suckers got pretty close too...
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: fallsflight on May 17, 2012, 12:18:34 PM
Probably 15 years ago, we used to have a woodpecker who would sit on a metal MPH sign on our road right across from the house and bang away at the crack of dawn every stinking morning.   He had hit that thing for so long and so hard the corner was actually bent back.  He must have been mentally chanllenged or something.  Stupid thing.   
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: fallsflight on May 17, 2012, 12:20:50 PM
Quote from: vaturkey on May 14, 2012, 04:01:04 PM

Hey David

Chaz Bono did a dance on dancing with the stars & it was called THE WHIPPORWILL. I'm pretty sure if you call him / her you could get your problem solved.

 Good Luck & Sleep Tight !     :funnyturkey:


      vaturkey     :newmascot:

And you know the "shim" did this dance how?   ???  :o  ;D
Title: Re: Help please! Nuisance whippoorwill
Post by: Skeeterbait on May 17, 2012, 01:15:30 PM
Quote from: fallsflight on May 17, 2012, 12:18:34 PM
Probably 15 years ago, we used to have a woodpecker who would sit on a metal MPH sign on our road right across from the house and bang away at the crack of dawn every stinking morning.   He had hit that thing for so long and so hard the corner was actually bent back.  He must have been mentally chanllenged or something.  Stupid thing.   

We had a woodpecker decide to start hammering on our aluminum drain gutter at daybreak every morning.  I wound up having to encourage him to stop.