This song started suddenly about 2 weeks ago. Its VERY loud and each song lasts about 20 seconds. You can hear it with the doors closed and the TV on. It's always from the same area, it never seems to travel, and it's pretty frequent at this point.
We live behind an auto place, and at first I remember catching part of it and thinking it was some sort of machinery that was trying to turn over. My boyfriend thought parts of it sounded like a monkey. It didn't take us long to realize it was all part of a whole song from a bird. It just took us by surprise because we don't remember hearing anything like this before.
I borrowed a friends modest recorder, sat outside, and taped every call I heard form this bird for about 30-40 minutes. The file I attached is the result. It's kind of faint in the recording, but when I hold my speaker up to my ear, or use the headphones in my ears I can hear it pretty well. Some parts are more faint then others.
The recording doesn't really do justice as to how loud it is.. Keep in mind this is how loud it records, even considering there are trucks behind us, airplanes going to/from our local airport providing some white noise cover, and the bird seems to be even further down the block, so this is a very loud call. It just radiates on the neighborhood. I have neighbors who complain, and wish it would disappear. I don't mind it, I'm just curious to what it is. My boyfriend brought over some bird call CD's but we couldn't find one on there matching this call.
It took me hours to learn how to upload it, change it to MP3 and condense it to fit. I hope it is useful and someone can help figure out who this is. I paused and resumed the recording whenever the call would start again, so you will hear some clicking. there is four distinct and different parts to the call, each time he calls. Some parts I was able to record have more of the complete song then others, depending on how fast I was able to work the recorder.
Listen closely..any thoughts are appreciated.
We live behind an auto place, and at first I remember catching part of it and thinking it was some sort of machinery that was trying to turn over. My boyfriend thought parts of it sounded like a monkey. It didn't take us long to realize it was all part of a whole song from a bird. It just took us by surprise because we don't remember hearing anything like this before.
I borrowed a friends modest recorder, sat outside, and taped every call I heard form this bird for about 30-40 minutes. The file I attached is the result. It's kind of faint in the recording, but when I hold my speaker up to my ear, or use the headphones in my ears I can hear it pretty well. Some parts are more faint then others.
The recording doesn't really do justice as to how loud it is.. Keep in mind this is how loud it records, even considering there are trucks behind us, airplanes going to/from our local airport providing some white noise cover, and the bird seems to be even further down the block, so this is a very loud call. It just radiates on the neighborhood. I have neighbors who complain, and wish it would disappear. I don't mind it, I'm just curious to what it is. My boyfriend brought over some bird call CD's but we couldn't find one on there matching this call.
It took me hours to learn how to upload it, change it to MP3 and condense it to fit. I hope it is useful and someone can help figure out who this is. I paused and resumed the recording whenever the call would start again, so you will hear some clicking. there is four distinct and different parts to the call, each time he calls. Some parts I was able to record have more of the complete song then others, depending on how fast I was able to work the recorder.
Listen closely..any thoughts are appreciated.
