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24-05-2006, 06:07 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, 06:14 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, 06:16 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
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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, 06:17 PM
| | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: N.E.SOMERSET
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that should have been warbling
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24-05-2006, 06:18 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Crawley,Sussex
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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, 06:21 PM
|  | Dame Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: North Kent
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Ello ello Vivien. I shall say this only once. You are warmly welcomed. ww |
24-05-2006, 06:22 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Stoke on Trent
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Although I like the idea of Rolfie wandering around France with his wobbleboard!
Welcome to WAB, Vivien! |
24-05-2006, 06:29 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Little village called Chedworth
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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, 07:59 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, 08:00 PM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Essex
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| | | Re: Hello from a Newbie in France!
Hello Vivien, welcome to the gang |
24-05-2006, 09:33 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Charente, France
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| | | Re: Hello from a Newbie in France!
Hi everyone and many thanks for the welcome and all those speedy responses!
The female warbling maybe the answer..... I shall try to find a bird song site on line.
No, definately not a curlew; one of my most favourite calls on the moors.
Maybe I shall be hearing didgery-doos (sp) next!
A more introductory post will be forthcoming with a few observations on the contrasts between wildlife here in France and the UK.
Vivien |
25-05-2006, 12:16 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sheffield
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Bonjour Vivien and a very warm welcome to WAB. We must talk champignon sometime
Enjoy
John |
25-05-2006, 03:13 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Laindon, Basildon, Essex.
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| | | Re: Hello from a Newbie in France!
A warm welcome to WAB Vivien .... and possibly Rolf .
I can not help you with your mystery sound but as far as I am aware Rolf is not currently on tour in Charente .
I look forward to hearing more from you. The contrasts between UK and French wildlife would I am sure be very interesting.
Richard |
25-05-2006, 06:35 AM
|  | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Woking, Surrey
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Can you tell what it is yet ?!?! (don't beleive no-ones done that one yet  )
Welcome to WAB
Olly |
25-05-2006, 08:20 AM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Hampshire, England
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Welcome to WAB!
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26-05-2006, 12:59 PM
| | New Member | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: Charente, France
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| | | Okay.... I will make a final attempt to describe this cuckoo associated noise.
No, forget the wobbleboard... and it's not the female cuckoo.
Think more in terms of trying to whistle. So it sounds very, very soft, starting low and rising rapidly through 5 notes; more like the noise you can make by blowing over the top of an empty bottle but not so resonating.
I've even started to think that it could be the noise of the cuckoo's wings as I only hear it when the cuckoo is really close.
Anyway, thank you everyone for your interest; if and when I make a positive identification you will all be the first to know! | |
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