Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

night bird. Some of its other names are more poetical as Nightjar, Bull-bat, Will-o-the-wisp, Pish, Pyramidig. Back-mottled brown & rufous with yellow & white spots. Wavy bars of brown on breast. White spot on neck.“Harsh whistling note while on wing, followed by a vibrating booming whirring sound that Nutall likens to ‘the rapid turning of a spinning-wheel, or a strong blowing into the bunghole of an empty hogs heads’”)It seems to bend the tips of its wings in its steely flight. All the birds of the air have