1906.
Sept. 9
(No 3)
  A Whippoorwill which has spent the entire summer
in the woods just across the river from Ball's Hill is
still there and of late has been singing almost as freely
and quite as vigorously & well as he did in June.
On the evening of September 6th he was in full song
for fifteen minutes during which he once gave 157
repetitions of his notes without stopping for breath.
This evening I counted 48 repetitions of his cry
without pause. At day break on the morning of the
3rd and at the same time on the following morning
this or another Whippoorwill fluttered several times
about a head net which was suspended over
a bed in the open air in front of the wood shed
on Pine Hill where Mr. Forbush had spent the
night. Mr. Forbush thinks the bird was picking 
off mosquitoes that were buzzing about the net. He
heard it snap or click its bill repeatedly and felt
the fanning of its wings against his face. He also
heard it click cluck as it alighted with an audible
thud on the ground near his bed. It came to 
the net several times on each occasion and after
it had gone nearly all the mosquitoes were gone also.
He thinks it sprang up from the ground to flutter
about the net but on each occasion he was lying
in such a position that he could not see it
distinctly in the dim light.
Whippoorwills