Dear Martin
Thanks for the suggestion of a fan-tailed cuckoo. I listened to the recording and like you, found it very slow - what I heard was quicker and with no pauses.
Other suggestions made by members of the group are a satin bowerbird, an owlet nightjar, or a juvenile boobook (the last sounded a possibility as well).
Many thanks to everyone who has taken an interest in my query.
With best wishes
Neville Potter
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2010 10:26:33 +1000
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Subject: [canberrabirds] Cricket noise in the dark
Last Monday Neville Potter posted "For the last few weeks in the early morning there is a bird in the trees next to our house which has a call like a (very loud) cricket. Being still dark, I can't see it, but it seems to go on to make lots of other (different) calls."
I woke about 3am and heard two fan-tailed cuckoos trilling back and forth. They did sound a bit like crickets: This is a sample I found through Avibase http://www.xeno-canto.org/sounds/uploaded/BPSDQEOJWG/Fan-tailed_Cuckoo_song_Baliem_Wally_Snow_Mountain_2009-07-18.mp3 although what i heard didn't have such a long pause between calls.
Martin
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