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  • What bird sounds like a creaky gate?
  • IanMunro
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    There's a bird outside the office at the moment that is making a noise a bit like a creaky gate being opened. A really high pitched squeak every 2 seconds lasting about a second. Any idea what it is, and if I can shoot it?

    Daisy_Duke
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    Could be the lesser spotted creaky-gate bird. Very rare I understand 😆
    Sorry

    wwaswas
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    am I the only one expecting, from the title, the rest of the post to be some sort of punchline?

    mastiles_fanylion
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    Sounds like the sort trying to scare a close-by cat away.

    yoda
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    I was expecting the first reply to be ….."The missus!"

    plop_pants
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    yellow hammer

    BigBikeBash
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    Baby Robin?

    silverpigeon
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    One of these

    hamishthecat
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    A Great Tit makes a sound a bit like a squeaky stirrup pump, or wheelbarrow wheel. Not sure if that's similar to a gate…

    hamishthecat
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    How bizarre. I wrote Great T1t and the swear filter makes it look more like Great ****t – or anything else with four letters anyway.

    CountZero
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    Apparently the Coal T1t also has a 'sqeaky wheel/gate' call:
    http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/c/coaltit/index.aspx

    BigBikeBash
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    I still reckon it is a baby robin

    dirtbiker100
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    could be a squirrel? has anyone heard a squirrel screaming before? sounds strange

    ernie_lynch
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    So you can say "Great Shit" but not "Great T!t"………. I'll be **** if I can understand this swear filter 😕

    btw, I think Shags sound like creaky gates………….am I allowed to say "shag" ?

    http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/s/shag/index.aspx

    …..ok, maybe it's a bit more like a creaky barn door 💡

    DezB
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    I used to think the magpies outside my house were someone dragging a stick along the wire fence. So probably not a magpie.

    convert
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    We have got one that sounds exactly like a phone – what's that then?

    ernie_lynch
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    The dialling tone or the ring tone ?

    convert
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    ringtone – freaks us out.

    cbike
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    Starlings mimic telephones and car alarm pips. Pain in the ass when you run inside and its not really the phone.

    ernie_lynch
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    Pain in the ass when you run inside

    Surely the clue is that the phone is ringing outside ?

    Or do the starlings sneak indoors for added comic effect ?

    Gary_C
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    😆 At ernie…

    CountZero
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    Starlings stick their heads in open windows, 'ring', then bugger off. It's the bird hooligan equivalent of ringing your doorbell and running away.

    trailmonkey
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    We have got one that sounds exactly like a phone – what's that then?

    Snap. We call ours telephone bird. I think he's related to another bird in the garden that we call alarm clock bird.

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