Hi David,
Sounds very much like a pheasant, yes. It's the call they usually make when
you flush them.
I've heard the female Tawny Owls do that quite a few times, to me it sounds
much close to "tu-whit tu-whoo" than the duet between the males and females=
!
Regards,
Tom
On 28 February 2011 22:25, Avocet <> wrote:
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> > Just had another listen to your recordings, I notice in your second
> > one dr000890corvids.mp3, at 9.6sec and 21.9sec a call from a marsh
> > tit Parus palust, the high pitched "pitchu". Not a common species in
> > the south west and now not common anywhere in the country.
>
> Paul,
>
> I'm struggling with species identification. I've got a large number of
> different calls which I'm logging but the recorder is still running as
> I type, pulling in more. :-)
>
> I thought I heard a march tit, and I identified one on my bird table
> in the snow and have photos of it. I had a lot of "pitchus" today with
> other tits but am waiting for a CD to check them out. I've got calls
> from the BBC web site and also from the British Library page but it
> takes time.
>
> > I would agree with Tom that it is highly likely to be a sparrowhawk,
> > they are now a very common bird of prey. Sparrowhawks have a habit
> > when hunting of keeping very low, hedge hopping, hoping to surprise
> > their prey, so they can easily be missed.
>
> I'll check that out again but to my ears the call is more mammalian
> than avian in texture. I'm also having problem with corvids,
> especially with single rooks and crows. I've identified ravens,
> magpies and the jackdaws from my own chimney nest, but there are at
> least two different crow "caws" I'm stuck on. I'm hampered by heavy
> cover so it's difficult to see what's singing in the wood where my
> mics are. I wandered down this afternoon to see what was peeping
> loudly and of course it stopped, and a deer ran off. They can see me
> but I can't see them.
>
> Do pheasants make a very short "Tuk Tuk"? It's the right pitch but
> fairly quiet. Have you heard my tawny owl female doing a toowhit
> toowho?
> http://www.stowford.org/sounds/dr000473owlpheascrop.mp3
> It hasn't read the books, but a male answered her. :-)
>
> David
>
> David Brinicombe
> North Devon, UK
> Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - Ambrose Bierce
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