Thanks Mick but mystery solved- I just managed to get a spotlight onto it
briefly and it's a flying fox behaving quite strangely.
So that's the next puzzle- what is it up to.
Cheers
Colin
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Todd
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 9:41 PM
> To: Colin Driscoll; Net. Au
> Subject: Re: [BIRDING-AUS] Mystery night call
>
>
> Hello Colin,
>
> Its not a young Boobook Owl is it? We've got a couple of young recently
> fledged Boobooks roosting in our backyard every day for the last
> week. They
> make calls similar to what you are describing, being louder when they are
> in flight. They head off with their parents every evening
> chirupping away.
> They're getting a pretty hard time during the day from Noisy Miners and
> Grey Butcherbirds.
>
> You're probably only a couple of km from where we are up above Toronto.
>
> Cheers
>
> Mick Todd
> Toronto, NSW
>
>
> At 09:22 PM 2/12/2004, Colin Driscoll wrote:
> >Hi all
> >
> >I first heard this bird before sunrise this morning and again tonight at
> >9:00. It has been flying circuits over my place at the edge of Lake
> >Macquarie near Toronto- in the dark and fairly fast. The call is like a
> >slightly coarse chirruping sounding a bit corella-like and a bit like a
> >small falcon.
> >
> >What do you reckon??
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >Colin Driscoll
> >
> >
> >
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