On the evening of 16 October 1986 Mr. William Levett of 460 Fairway Drive, Half Moon Bay, San Mateo County, California, found a strange bird hopping and fluttering in the road on his block. He took it to the wildlife rehabilitation department of the Peninsula Humane Society in San Mateo on 17 October. There Sandi Stadler tentatively identified it as a Chuck-will’s-widow (Caprimulgus carolinensis). That afternoon, I confirmed the identification and photographed the live bird in the hand, using direct sunlight and Ektachrome 400 film (Figures 1 and 2).