There doesn't appear to be a return address but my suggestion is a Tawny
Frogmouth.
Mark
On 17/02/2022 1:24 pm, wrote:
> If you are able to help Philip to identify his nocturnal visitor
> please reply directly to him. He lives in Curtin.
>
> Thanks
>
> Margaret Robertson
>
> On 17-02-2022 08:49, Philip Barnaart wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I wonder if you could help me with the identification of a bird that I
>> have never heard before?
>>
>> Last night, at about 1.30 am, I woke up to the sound of what sounded
>> like a machine humming in cycles.
>> Each cycle lasted the same time - about 5 seconds - and it was quite
>> distracting. So much so that I couldn't get back to sleep!
>>
>> At first I thought the young neighbour next door had left some
>> electronic machine running.
>> It was definitely coming from outside in the direction of the
>> neighbour's house.
>>
>> I got up and tried to follow the sound and sure enough it was
>> definitely coming from the direction of the neighbour's.
>> But as I approached the boundary I realised that the sound was coming
>> from up in the Argyle Apple tree on the neighbour's nature strip.
>>
>> I went back inside and armed myself with a powerful torch which I
>> shone up into the (very large) Argyle Apple but could not make out any
>> animal or bird.
>>
>> However the sharp bright beam of my torch disturbed a white/light
>> coluored bird which flew away to the west.
>>
>> It was this bird that was making the noise. Once it flew away the
>> noise ceased.
>>
>> Was it an owl? If so which species? Powerful owl?
>>
>> I have never heard this noise in our neighbourhood before.
>>
>> Regards
>> Philip
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