Re: Identify Night Bird Sound Recording - THANKS!


"RJP" wrote >
Les - I waited on this one for a while hoping that someone else could
come up with an ID for this sound. I'm not "expert" with the sounds
of birds of the eastern U.S., but I do OK - I know about 200 different
eastern birds - and this isn't one of them. Moreover, the fact that it
vocalizes at night narrows the field quite a bit. It certainly is not any
of the classic night vocalizers, like any owl or nightjar (i.e. Whip-
poor-will or its relatives).

How certain are you that it is a bird? The fact that it is solitary
decreases the chances that it is an amphibian or an insect, but these
and other possibilities need to be considered. How long does it
make these sounds? All night? Does your search with the
spotlight seem to disturb it? Does it ever seem to move around?
I'm now real curious about this myself.


--
Randy

Well, my next door neighbor (glad I'm not the only one that hears it) and I
have always thought it was a bird, but I can't swear to it. It can go on for
hours at a time but there can be minutes or hours between vocalizations and
I have to be up at night and with TV, radio etc. turned off to hear it. Many
days I don't hear it at all but I don't know if that is because I have TV on
or air conditioner is on or if I am just not paying attention or am just
used to it.

I don't think I have never heard anything that was more than a solitary
critter.

Just opening the door or window or going outside stops it, but a couple of
times I have gone outside and set for a few minutes... then it will start
again..... seeming to come from the roof of my apartment... no trees very
close... AND I CAN'T FIND IT! (not that it bothers me... lol) even with a
spotlight.

I have guessed that it might be sitting in my rain gutters since I can't
find it on the roof, but I really just don't have a clue. It could be or on
the other side of the roofor in the attic I guess, although I haven't seen
any entrance spots anywhere.

For a long while I thought it might be a mockingbird. I do here the loud
territorial mockers at night sometimes in the spring and summer and this is
very subdued compared to that.

Anyway, I have not idea... (BUT I WON'T LET IT BOTHER ME!!)......

I just got a new camera that has a sound recorder so (EVEN THOUGH IT
DOESN'T BOTHER ME) , I thought I would give some of the
better-informed-than-I a try.

The sound recording I posted is very "correct" as far as what I hear.

I do have owls and common nighthawks around here sometimes.... not even
close.

Thanks for the response, Randy!
--
Les Stewart
Beaumont, TX 30ºN 94ºW


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