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Message: <blockquote data-quote="GregL65" data-source="post: 2409947" data-attributes="member: 107862">Four days ago, I heard sounds in the morning that I thought sounded like a police officer directing traffic, using a whistle. But there is so little traffic around here that early in the morning, that I coudn't imagine where all the cars would have been coming from that he seemed to be whistling at. When I stepped outside to hear it better, I decided it sounded like it was probably a bird call. But not one that I've ever noticed before. My wife heard the same thing and is curious too.The call had two tones, seperated by several seconds. It was about one second of one tone, then several seconds of silence, then about one second another tone, then several seconds of silence, then repeat all that many times. Sometimes the silence between whistles seems to stretch to more than a minute, though I haven't timed them.After listening a while I decided that the higher of the two tones was the one that really sounded like a police whistle. The lower of the two tones seemed more birdlike.We have heard it at various times during the day, including evening.Since we don't normally hear this call, we're guessing it's probably either a mating call, or a migratory bird that's just passing through. But since it's been going on for at least four days, we're guessing that mating call is the more likely of those two possibilities. Any idea what bird's call this might be? We're in the Pacific Northwest, in Bellevue, near Seattle.</blockquote>

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