Nature Corner/Storybook Room - Whip-poor-will

   Nature Corner/Storybook Room for Saturday morning, June 27, 2026

This Saturday Uncle Bob Devine chats with one member of  a family of birds, the Whip-poor-will family also known a the Nightjar family. Bob chats with the bird he calls the Poor Willow Bird. 

You will find that Poor Willow Bird is more commonly refered to as the Eastern Wippoorwill. The eastern wippoorwill is found along southern Canada and down the easten United States. The eastern whippoorwill has a more southern cousin, The Mexican Whippoorwill who lives in the southwestern US and along eastern Mexico. 

Both of these birds are known by their distinct calls. The Mexican calls out "whip-poor-will". The Eastern simply calls out "poor-will". Let's let Bob and Poor Will tell you more.

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RB207 The Town that Wouldn't Move

 We have another exciting RANGER BILL adventure for late Saturday, June 27, 2026:

RB207 The Town that Wouldn't Move

The small town of Big Rock must move to make way for the construction of a badly needed hydro-electric dam. Not one person in the town is willing to move. The townspeople prefer to fight rather than move. Bill is appointed to be the mediator in this dispute. Bill must decide whether Big Rock stays or goes. No matter who wins this fight, Bill loses.

https://archive.org/details/town-wouldnt-move

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZJ1XmajQzr15YxrKK1cC0stuF5nfkE8S/view?usp=sharing

RB124 Soup Truck

  Our RANGER BILL tale for early Saturday morning, June 27, 2026, is filled with great danger and even greater bravery:

RB124 Soup Truck

A truck carrying nitroglycerin blows up just outside the town of Landslide. The mayor closes Landslide to all dangerous truck traffic. Closing Landslide will put the explosives company out of business and hurt many other businesses. Bill must find a way to prove to the mayor that even nitro can be taken safely through Landslide. 

https://archive.org/details/OTRR_Ranger_Bill_Singles/Ranger_Bill_xx-xx-xx_ep056_Soup_Truck.mp3

OTRR #165

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlPv7UWH3-g

RB034 Piggyback

  RANGER BILL tries to make peace between two competitors, Thursday, June 25, 2026:

 RB034 – Piggyback – Dangerous winter weather and complex delivery problems threaten the survival of both Canyon City Truck Lines and the railroad. Leonard Grant, owner of CCTL, and Spence Neihoff, superintendent of the Knotty Pine railroad district, do not get along and refuse to work with one another. Bill must teach these men how to work together instead of against each other.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQL2qpm90sw

First aired Nov. 19, 1955. This is OTRR #22.

RB033 Chinook

  Ranger Bill is hoping for winter weather for Wednesday afternoon, 6/24/2026, with RB033:

Chinook

It's winter in the Shady Mountains. At least it's supposed to be. The dreaded Chinook winds are blowing. The winds make it 50 degrees in the mountains when it ought to be 15 degrees below zero. The snow in the Shadies is melting and filling up Mid-Mountain Dam and cracking off huge chunks of glacier ice. The rising waters and the moving ice are threatening Mid-Mountain and Knotty Pine Dams. The threat to Mid-Mountain Dam grows with each passing hour of thaw. The dam operators ask Bill and the boys to do something to stop the ice. Bill calls on the one person he thinks can stop the ice boulders - Frenchy DeSalle. How can logger Frenchy help Bill stop tons and tons of speeding ice flows?

Maybe the title needs an exclamation point!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJjoyKQxVaA