BognerAcres
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I'm in a rural area in Ohio, United States - my lot is a little marshy, with a stand of tall trees, a shrubby field, and lots of agricultural fields surrounding.
Starting after nightfall today (March 18) for the past couple hours I have been hearing numerous individuals that I can not see making a high-pitched, clear, loud, repeated sound like eeEEP..... eeeEEP. It's hard to distinguish what letter would go at the very beginning and end of the sound - it's sounded like reeep or weeep or maybe ending in a 't' sound - but the main distinguisher is the loud eeEEE that gets louder during the call. The call is quick and is repeated after a few seconds but it's hard to tell the timing because there are many individuals - I would guess somewhere between 5 and 10. Sometimes they all stop at once, then in a bit one will start and more and more will join in on their own time, creating quite a ruckus. Sometimes also it seems like they will move off to somewhere more distant, but will come back. Sometimes the same sound will be quickly trilled, like ee-ee-ee-ee-eep. The sound sort of resembles some car alarms.
I've looked through my Ohio bird guide and listened online to the sounds of every bird that's around in March and nothing is seeming to fit - but I am very much a beginner. Anyone have any ideas? I am starting to doubt that it is even birds but it seems too bird-like to be something else.
Starting after nightfall today (March 18) for the past couple hours I have been hearing numerous individuals that I can not see making a high-pitched, clear, loud, repeated sound like eeEEP..... eeeEEP. It's hard to distinguish what letter would go at the very beginning and end of the sound - it's sounded like reeep or weeep or maybe ending in a 't' sound - but the main distinguisher is the loud eeEEE that gets louder during the call. The call is quick and is repeated after a few seconds but it's hard to tell the timing because there are many individuals - I would guess somewhere between 5 and 10. Sometimes they all stop at once, then in a bit one will start and more and more will join in on their own time, creating quite a ruckus. Sometimes also it seems like they will move off to somewhere more distant, but will come back. Sometimes the same sound will be quickly trilled, like ee-ee-ee-ee-eep. The sound sort of resembles some car alarms.
I've looked through my Ohio bird guide and listened online to the sounds of every bird that's around in March and nothing is seeming to fit - but I am very much a beginner. Anyone have any ideas? I am starting to doubt that it is even birds but it seems too bird-like to be something else.
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