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    Help ID this bird call - Holme Fen, Cambridgeshire

    I think you must be right - It does sound very much like that doesnt it - though I dont recall any of the 'shrieking' soounds but given everything else, I think i am going to have to settle for a Tawny... Thank you very much for finding that video which seems to confirm it. :)
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    Help ID this bird call - Holme Fen, Cambridgeshire

    I agree - Tawny was my first thought - but i could tell it just wasn't quite right. I went on a quick tour de force of all the british owl calls - and drew a blank... Perhaps a key to this was it was late dusk/night time and there arent that many things that call at night! Also - it was very...
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    Help ID this bird call - Holme Fen, Cambridgeshire

    I have been visiting Holme Fen since 1989 as I was born and bred in Peterborough - I always thought of it as mainly silver birch woodland - there are a few areas that have been cleared and are still clear in the middle - it is a very large reserve! The Holme Fen posts are still there - Every...
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    Help ID this bird call - Holme Fen, Cambridgeshire

    Hi Andrew - as you are Professor of Listening - does this have you stumped? Very good point about it possibly being an amphibian - but to me, it was up and in the trees but I will go and do some googling on this ... This is annoying the heck out of me! lol Thanks, Melissa
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    Help ID this bird call - Holme Fen, Cambridgeshire

    Hello, I am new here and hang around nature reserves a lot. A couple of months ago I was visiting Holme Fen, near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. It is a lovely, predominantly silver birch, woodland with very peaty soil and a couple of lakes with lots of waterfowl on them. Info about Holme Fen...
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