ML353381161
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Familiar, echoic "Doo-dee-doo Doo-dee-doo!" calls started vaguely around 8:00 p.m. At around 8:20 p.m. one of the Common Poorwills flew towards me and began circling around my head repeatedly at an incredibly close distance of no more than 5 ft while making sounds that I have never heard them make before. The bird kept making bubbly "Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop!" sounds while floppily doing laps around my head (proportionately shorter tail than a nighthawk along with proportionately shorter wings that were very round or paddle-shaped), occasionally landing on the ground(very small nightjar with the illusion of having no tail, white slash across the throat), close by, only to jump up again, and continue with the same scolding calls. As I started walking away from the middle of the wash back towards my car, the same bird escorted me for quite a distance, perhaps 100 yards, before he finally decided that he had won this epic battle and limped away in victory.
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