The Missing Whip-o-will Bird
Personal memory by Virginia Patenaude
1950 • Park Hill Road, Northampton, MA, USA
When I was a child I remember the evening sound of the Wip-o-will in the cedar tree beneath my bedroom window an intermittent bird song in the 1950's. It seems the environment changed when farmland changed hands and more homes were built in the country here in Northampton, Mass.
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