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that eventually resulted in the Burgundy Center for Wildlife Studies, which remains in viable existence today.
A 16-year-old student with a passion for birds found the whip-poor-will nest. I can’t imagine how. He took me to the spot and pointed to the incubating female on the ground. It took me some minutes to see the bird, for she was perfectly camouflaged.
We went back at night with flashlight, camera, telephoto lens and flash gun.
The resulting picture is interesting, yet it shows little. All one sees are the great eyes that glowed red in the flashlight beam, but are brown in the photograph. The bird remains a part of the dead leaves on the woods floor.
There is more to the story.
We soon discovered the nest of a broad-winged hawk in the top of the tree under which the nocturnal bird had laid her eggs. In the same tree, a blue-gray gnatcatcher had built her tiny, lichen-covered nest. The 4-inch gray-andwhite birds went about their business in safety, probably because of the big hawk. A gnatcatcher was too small a prey to interest the hawk.
The whip-poor-will incubated eggs (and later, brooded young) during the day when the hawk was hunting food. At night, when the whip-poorwill fluttered through the woods for food, the hawk slept.
The whip-poor-will and the gnatcatcher attained a measure of protection from the presence of the hawk. Were they smart birds, or was it a happy coincidence? I prefer the first explanation.
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