Fifty years ago when I was a youngster living in the woods adjacent the shoreline at the mouth of Greasy Creek in Russell County, it was home to several whippoorwills. Every night each spring and summer they would get started fervently calling each other in the woods outside our screened porch to the point being almost annoying. Then came the blizzards in the 1970s when the Mississippi and Ohio rivers froze and wildlife biologists have suggested coyotes from out west crossed the rivers invading this country and decimating the ground nesting whipporwill populations. - Robert Cumming