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New Sound

  • 04-06-2010 08:33AM
    #1
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭


    So, this year has been great one so far (for me at least) for new bird sightings and sounds.

    I've heard more than one cuckoo every day. I have a pair of snipe in the field next door. Odd sound that. I saw a red kite earlier in the year. Warblers galore. Nesting wagtails. I heard a coot or similar the other night also.

    The pheasants and buzzards have largely disappeared. They must be busy rearing little ones. Same happened last year. Kestrel is also around less.

    Swallows are back in the porch but haven't built anything.

    Anyway, last night, after all other birds were quiet I heard something that resembled someone hacksawing through steel.
    A high pitch then a low pitch. Very basic but distinctive. Repeated maybe 5 times in succession. Then a 20 - 30 second gap and start again.
    It would be something like a chiff chaff except on a larger scale and a good few octaves lower if you know what I mean.
    I reckon its a bird (as opposed to a frog for example) because it readily changes location.
    I heard it for the first time yesterday at dawn.

    Any ideas?
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Comments

  • #2
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
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    What part of the country are you in?


  • #3
    Rainbowsend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Rainbowsend


    Might be a Nightjar?


  • #4
    Smartypantsdig
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    Any chance it's a corn crake? I was working down near Clonmacnoise last year and heard one. Sounds just like you described.


  • #5
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Smartypantsdig wrote: »
    Any chance it's a corn crake? I was working down near Clonmacnoise last year and heard one. Sounds just like you described.

    That's why I wanted the location to see if it's an option.


  • #6
    Rainbowsend
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 938 ✭✭✭Rainbowsend


    Go to the RSPB website (rspb.org.uk) and listen to the Corncrake and Nightjar then decide :)


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  • #7
    LostCovey
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    Don't post the location if it's a Nightjar.

    LC


  • #8
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    By location I mean Midlands, North West, Co. Cork, etc .


  • #9
    E39MSport
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭E39MSport


    Nothing as exotic I'm afraid.

    Turns out it's one of the 3 snipe that are in the field next to me.

    I'm familiar with the strange 'gazoo' call they make but this second one is new. One of them was making it when approached by others while in flight. Might be a courtship thing?


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