????? The longest page on my site - unidentified flying objects. Any help appreciated. ?????
#1: This call was recorded on 29/04/2021 at 22:04.
Redshank is my best bet but I am happy to be told otherwise. With another Redshank vote tihs one could soon be removed from the mystery category. |
#2: This call was recorded at our house on 03/05/2021 at 04:59.
I am pretty sure it is a wader. Redhank? A quavering call lasting 0.32s. The frequency vaires between 2.1 and 2.5 khz. |
#3: This call was recorded at our house on 03/05/2021 at 04:07.
Same as #2 above? A quavering call lasting 1.3s. with each oscillation of the order of 0.3s. The frequency varies between 1.8 and 2.2 khz. The first vote in for this one is Redshank! Thanks Mike. |
#4: Cockerel This call was recorded at our house on 23/04/2021.at c 03:29.
Listening again it does sound a little like a cockerel but there are none anywhere near us! Wrong - the neighbours now have a cockerel so mystery solved. There is a lower arch call lasting 1.1s with a frequency from 1 to 1.8 khz and for the last 0.25s it is joined by a call at 2.5 khz.. Blackbird is one current proposal. |
#5: Cockerel This call is probably the same species as #4 and was recorded at our house on 04/05/2021 at 22:22, with an earlier less clear version as well.
As above the solution is Cockerel! |
#6: This call was recorded at our house on 21/04/2021 at 22:31.
The call lasts for 0.16s with frequencies between 2.1khz to 9 khz. At first I thought of Common Gull but the call seems too harsh. |
#7: This call was recorded at our house on 21/04/2021 at 22:11.
The first component of this disyllabic call is 0.1s long at a flat 2 khz whislt the second component is of length 0.2s descending from 2.8 to 2.2 khz. A similar call recorded on 28/04/2021 at 00:30. It still sounds like a wader. |
#8: This call was recorded on two consecutive nights at out house, on 21 and 22/04/2021.
Oddly a firend of South Uist got the same squeak on the 22nd. Some advice has been Water Rail. Mechanical is not impossible but hard to understand. |
#9: This call was recorded at our house on 04/05/2021 at 22:22.
It certainly sounds like a wader. The calls last 0.15s and the frequency lowers from 2.4 to 1.8 khz. There is a higher short component 3.3 khz. |
#10: This call was recorded at our house on 04/05/2021 at 22:15.
It sounds like a wader agian. The length is 0.26s, it rises slighlty to a peak of 2.8 khz before dropping to a flat 2.4khz for the last half of the call. 'peouu'.. The same call was recorded 27/04/2021 at 22:26. Golden Plover perhaps? |
#11: This call was recored at our house 0n 24/04/2021 at 23:06.
Another wader! A hit of a disyllabic call with the first very short component being lower at 1khz. The main call is of 16s duration risnng from 1.7 to 2.3 khz. 'hweet' |
#12: This call was recorded at our house on 07/05/2021 at 22:05.
It sounds to me alike an odd Ringed Plover with a hint of Spotted Redshank and Grey Plover. If forced I'd got for the latter.. The length of the call was 0.4s total : te (2.5 khz) u (2.3 khz) wiit (duration of 0.1s rising from 2.4 to 2.5 khz) |
#13: Song Thrush
This call was recorded at our house on 06/05/2021 at 04:48. An early Blackbird? A rare Little Ringed Plover?! In fact consensus seems to be a Song Thrush. |
#14: Herring Gull
This call was recodred at our house on 11/05/2021 at 00:26 Initially I thought it was some kind of large gull. The calls are short, 0.18s,.and are an inverted l shape dropping form 1.4 to 1.2 khz. Advice seems to be that Herring Gull is the best bet. |