I hope someone can help with this as it was driving us all nuts not knowing what it was. I have just returned from the South of France (just west of Montpellier) and am extremely happy to have seen bee-eaters and Hoopoes amongst others but there is one bird that we only heard and and would love to know what it was. At dusk and into full darkness we kept hearing a call that I can only describe as sounding like a sonar 'ping', you know, the sort of thing you hear in all those war films set on a submarine. We think we traced it to a bird sitting high in a tree that was about the size of a blackbird (the bird not the tree of course ).
Any pointers to pictures or recordings of possible suspects would be most gratefully received.
Thanks
Ian
Any pointers to pictures or recordings of possible suspects would be most gratefully received.
Thanks
Ian