Pete Mella
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Help with call ID, South Yorkshire, UK
This is where I attempt to make a description of bird sound and fail dismally...
I was at the Blackburn Meadows reserve in Rotherham, South Yorkshire yesterday, and heard a strange call coming from a patch of trees, quite close by to the path. Whatever made it only made it twice, and the best description was a short noise that sounded like when you flick the teeth of a comb, but with a bit of a frog-like quality to it. I was unsure if it was coming from the trees or undergrowth.
The area is in the middle of industrialisation on the Sheffield/Rotherham border, and has two lakes formed by a former sewage works surrounded by trees. Other birds that were definitely present were magpies, carrion crows, long-tailed tits, coots, moorhens, goldfinches, bullfinches, black-headed gulls, robins and great and blue tits.
I've found a birdsound that it could be, but I don't want to say now in case that sways people in the wrong direction...
This is where I attempt to make a description of bird sound and fail dismally...
I was at the Blackburn Meadows reserve in Rotherham, South Yorkshire yesterday, and heard a strange call coming from a patch of trees, quite close by to the path. Whatever made it only made it twice, and the best description was a short noise that sounded like when you flick the teeth of a comb, but with a bit of a frog-like quality to it. I was unsure if it was coming from the trees or undergrowth.
The area is in the middle of industrialisation on the Sheffield/Rotherham border, and has two lakes formed by a former sewage works surrounded by trees. Other birds that were definitely present were magpies, carrion crows, long-tailed tits, coots, moorhens, goldfinches, bullfinches, black-headed gulls, robins and great and blue tits.
I've found a birdsound that it could be, but I don't want to say now in case that sways people in the wrong direction...