Help with Bird ID please - Thanks!

blossom10 · #1 (**permalink**) 19-06-2011, 09:47 PM

Hi All,

This bird call is driving me potty!! I've never heard anything like it so its completely stumped me.

I can only describe it as uurrrrrrr - irrrrrrrrrr with the secong part of the call being a higher pitch than the first. I live in a country are with fields front and back and I heard it at about 9pm this evening. It sounds like a large - ish sort of bird and I think it started in the trees at the bottom of the garden, flew off then flew back.

Sorry its a rubbish description :-(

I've been through heaps of the calls on the RSPB site, none of which sound like what I heard.

Thanks for any suggestions!

werdnal · #2 (**permalink**) 19-06-2011, 10:12 PM

Calling that late in the evening would it possibly be this:

YouTube - ‪Nightjar Call‬&rlm;

RKB · #3 (**permalink**) 19-06-2011, 10:36 PM

Stock Dove?

htcdude · #4 (**permalink**) 20-06-2011, 07:31 AM

I'd go with Nightjar, Greenfinch, or a toad/frog of some sort

Gill Catton · #5 (**permalink**) 20-06-2011, 10:02 AM

Are grasshopper warblers still singing? Could be them, they sing in the evening - though tends to be one long churr rather than two seperate sections...

Or turtle dove?