Today on the Isle of Lewis off the northwest coast of Scotland I heard a clonking sound consisting of two clonks close together in time, and then a gap, and then lots of repeats. At first I thought it was made by metal, and I wondered whether perhaps a dog had been left outside and had become stressed and was banging something or pushing it about, maybe his bowl. It certainly sounded like metal. Then I realised it was coming from one of two carrion crows perched on the concrete or stone structure atop the church here which looks as though it probably once contained a bell. (It doesn't contain a bell now, and as far as I know it hasn't for years, so this isn't a case of a bird imitating a sound that emanates from that place every week. Still, there was something very striking about the bird making a metal-like sound in that location.)
Can someone tell me more about what was going on? Only one of the two birds was making this sound, and it was moving its wings when doing so. The other wasn't making any sound I could hear.
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Neil
Can someone tell me more about what was going on? Only one of the two birds was making this sound, and it was moving its wings when doing so. The other wasn't making any sound I could hear.
(This is my first post here, and this seemed like the most appropriate forum. If I should have put it instead in a local or some other forum, please can a mod advise accordingly. Thanks!)
Neil
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