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First detected in dim light at 20:28 roughly 0.5 miles in when I stopped to listen to a rustle in the leaves at the side of the trail. Assuming it to be the Catbird I had heard calling on my approach, I thought my suspicion was correct when I heard a discrete series of Catbird-esque "chut" calls coming from the trail in front of me. Taking one step ahead, I spotted a flutter of wings and a flash of white outer tail feathers low to the ground hardly fifteen feet in front of me. Even in the poor light, the oblong pancake shape and intricately patterned plumage of a nightjar was distinctive. The bird called for about 30 more seconds before briefly going quiet and then –to my amazement– erupting into song right there in front of me for nearly 90 seconds. I took some steps back and it flew another 20 feet farther away from me and again sang for well over a minute. It moved at least two more times farther south, singing for anywhere between 15 and 60 seconds at a time, with brief interludes of quiet in between before I eventually left it around 20:40. An overall amazing experience made even more incredible by the fact that this was the only individual I detected on the entire walk!
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