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This sound?

fryup · 2019-05-05 17:44:17

Can you please tell me whats making this high pitch screech/call? its coming from a vacant site next door, the site is overgrown with bramble, thatch and laurel i presume its a bird..hatchlings in a nest? a raptor?...or is it a bird? https://vocaroo.com/i/s1mGz4zkEB8b (may need to turn up volume on website & PC)

05-05-2019 5:44pm

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Can you please tell me whats making this high pitch screech/call?

its coming from a vacant site next door, the site is overgrown with bramble, thatch and laurel

i presume its a bird..hatchlings in a nest? a raptor?...or is it a bird?

https://vocaroo.com/i/s1mGz4zkEB8b

(may need to turn up volume on website & PC)

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#2 05-05-2019 5:48pm

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Sounds like a wrench

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#3 05-05-2019 5:49pm

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Meant wren

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#4 05-05-2019 5:51pm

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Can't hear it properly but could it be a squirrel?
https://youtu.be/4pc9HkvsYWo

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#5 05-05-2019 7:12pm

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Blackcap alarm call..

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#6 12-05-2019 9:10pm

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bump! i heard it again today...any other suggestions?

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#7 13-05-2019 8:17pm

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Ok..it’s a Blackcap alarm call, they have two alarms, one general everyday ‘Tic Tic ‘ call similar to Robin, wren, Stonechat etc and then there is the frantic ‘That looks like a cat!!’ call ..yours is the latter..

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