( If only I had deployed my "Vismigophone " before opening the front door ) Oh dear oh dear..... Most nights before climbing the Wooden Hill To Bedfordshire I stand at the back door and just listen. It isn't as rewarding as it used to be.... owls vanishingly scarce now, of any sort. Whimbrel was a possibility, but it was a bit early for them. So ..what did I hear ? I wish I knew .... here's what I wrote in my special Bird-Spotting Spotters Book, free with the Bunty ( subscribers only.) 10pm ..... strange bird flying around fairly high up ( I think.... I never saw it) , and its call was, as they say ,"unfamiliar" .... which is both good and bad. Bad, because I might never find out what the blasted thing was, and good because if I do find out it might be a good find, maybe even a "House Tick" ... The call had a squeaky, badly-oiled-bicycle sound, variously described by me as .. a very thin ,faint "Kweek-kweek" or "Kwik-kwik" ... and sometimes more like " skweek-skweek" .... The Significant Otter suggested Tawny Owl, understandably, but their calls are far more robust and far-carrying. So.. what do you do with that ? I could, I suppose, make a shortlist of what it might be ... ... and then spend hours and hours listening to recordings of lots and lots of birds. .... what I should have had at the ready was this .... 934-tick-tootling-and-treecreepers.html ..... so far I've ruled out Goldcrest, Carrier Pigeon and Bittern. ...... well, it's a start .... and it might have an end ...
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