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24-05-2006, 07:07 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Charente, France
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| | | Hello from a Newbie in France!
Hello everone!
Apologies for posting from France but my heart belongs to England!
I'm an avid wildlifer but cannot find any info on a perculiar sound I have often heard close to cuckoos. I can only describe it as similar to one of those metal wobble boards Rolfe Harris used to play, but maybe softer.
There are lots of cuckoos here in the Charente and I've heard this strange sound on many occassions. In England only a few times when I lived in a remote part of the North York Moors.
Can anyone identify this sound from my painfully inadaquate description?
Vivien |
24-05-2006, 07:14 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: London
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| | | Re: Hello from a Newbie in France!
Welcome to WAB Vivien.
I wonder if you may have been hearing a Curlew? |
24-05-2006, 07:16 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
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| | | Re: Hello from a Newbie in France!
I have been told that the female cuckoo responds with a softer wabling call welcome to the interesting world of Wild About Britain,where you visit an amazing picture Gallery or find out about almost anything wildlife.I claim Yorkshire ancestory
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24-05-2006, 07:17 PM
| | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
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| | | Re: Hello from a Newbie in France!
that should have been warbling
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24-05-2006, 07:18 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Crawley,Sussex
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| | | Re: Hello from a Newbie in France!
Hi Vivien and welcome to WAB.
Are you sure you are not hearing the female Cuckoo's "bubbling" sound that only she makes which the male does not.
Are you living in France or just on holiday if i may be so presumptious to ask  |
24-05-2006, 07:21 PM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Kent
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| | | Re: Hello from a Newbie in France!
Ello ello Vivien. I shall say this only once. You are warmly welcomed. ww |
24-05-2006, 07:22 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Stoke on Trent
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| | | Re: Hello from a Newbie in France!
Although I like the idea of Rolfie wandering around France with his wobbleboard!
Welcome to WAB, Vivien! |
24-05-2006, 07:29 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Near Peterborough
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| | | Re: Hello from a Newbie in France!
Bonjour and welcome!!!!
I think the female sounds like she's chuckling don't know if that will help with your guessing? |
24-05-2006, 08:59 PM
|  | Frozen | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: N.E. Lincolnshire
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| | | Re: Hello from a Newbie in France!
Hello Vivien, and a very warm welcome to WAB  |
24-05-2006, 09:00 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Essex
Posts: 449
| | | Re: Hello from a Newbie in France!
Hello Vivien, welcome to the gang | | | |
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