I want to kill the Weepah Weepah bird

[selamlar]

Now you've solved that mystery, can you identify the "key key key" bird that seems to be vocal here most of the day between may and autumn?

Buzzard?

Nah, buzzards go 'mew'.

 

[madzone]

Don't start

 

[geminisnake]

Really?

There are certain species that you are allowed to hunt at certain times of the year but don't even go there with that bunch of cnuts and their keepers taking out birds of prey

 

[gentlegreen]

There's a bird out the back that makes an annoyingly repetitive call for ages and ages - presumably an alarm call.
I could have sworn I saw a blackbird making the noise in the presence of one of the thousand cats in my neighbourhood, but according to http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/, it isn't.

Maybe it's a bird imitating some sort of minimal car alarm.

I can see I'll have to set up a microphone.

EDIT :-

On second thoughts it has to be a blackbird - having listened to all the other species. It must just be a lazy one.

 

[gentlegreen]

Would a blackbird chick make this kind of row ? :-

http://sites.google.com/site/gentlegreen/public-files/bird.mp3

1.1 MB, 128k MP3

Sorry for sound quality - mic. wasn't up to it, laptop rather crap and sound editor on the blink.

 

[Skin]

Has anyone else noticed that Seagulls are getting noisier?
This morning at about 4am a vast flock of them were screaming their heads off and flying round and round in circles above my flat.
A bit later the blackbird started off outside my window. Very intricate song. I'm incredibly lucky considering I live so near the city centre to have so much wildlife. I just wish they had volume control.
When I lived in "stab Towers" the pigeons on my balcony drove me homicidal with their orgasm like chortlings at unearthly hours. No matter what you did they always came back ten minutes later and carried on!

 

[geminisnake]

Gg, blackbirds can mimic. At least one round here makes the same noise as my neighbours phone
Skin, an air rifle tends to stop pidgeons making noises. It also keeps pheasants out of your garden. He's never been back since I clipped his backside with a pellet. Stays in the fields now

 

[Yelkcub]

My little weepah mate is back! I've missed him/her!

 

[Yelkcub]

My little weepah mate is back! I've missed him/her!

And again for 2012!

 

[Greebo]

Now you've solved that mystery, can you identify the "key key key" bird that seems to be vocal here most of the day between may and autumn?

Replying to myself The "key key key" bird is a green parakeet - one of several.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Would a blackbird chick make this kind of row ? :-

http://sites.google.com/site/gentlegreen/public-files/bird.mp3

1.1 MB, 128k MP3

Sorry for sound quality - mic. wasn't up to it, laptop rather crap and sound editor on the blink.

Just sounded like a blackbird alarm call, that chak-chak-chak sound, yes?

 

[KeeperofDragons]

There's a seagull round here that chuckles - I'm sure it cos it's just shat on someone's merc or bmw

 

[Yelkcub]

My weepah bird was in full voice most of yesterday. A tad annoying when trying to lie in, but was nice to hear him after my alarm went off this morning

 

[marty21]

Just sounded like a blackbird alarm call, that chak-chak-chak sound, yes?

I thought the chak chak chak sound was the Magpie?

 

[kittyP]

I forgot about this thread.

For some reason it had Badgers in hysterics

 

[iona]

I have a bird that lands on the roof at 6am every day and makes a sort of honky squawking noise. It must be fairly big because it lands with a right thump and you can hear it pitter-pattering about above you. Any ideas what this is, oh wise urbans? I want to make friends with the people in the top flats across the road and kill it with an air rifle from their window.

 

[Badgers]

For some reason it had Badgers in hysterics

It still does

 

[marty21]

I have a bird that lands on the roof at 6am every day and makes a sort of honky squawking noise. It must be fairly big because it lands with a right thump and you can hear it pitter-pattering about above you. Any ideas what this is, oh wise urbans? I want to make friends with the people in the top flats across the road and kill it with an air rifle from their window.

Golden Eagle ?

 

[Greebo]

I have a bird that lands on the roof at 6am every day and makes a sort of honky squawking noise. It must be fairly big because it lands with a right thump and you can hear it pitter-pattering about above you. Any ideas what this is, oh wise urbans? I want to make friends with the people in the top flats across the road and kill it with an air rifle from their window.

Canada goose?

 

[iona]

Canada goose?

THAT'S what it reminded me of! Thanks, I think that's probably what it is.

 

[geminisnake]

Sounds like a crow/corvid(of the crow family) or a gull to me iona. From the landing with a thump more than the noise

WTF is a goose landing on your roof for?? They don't tend to hang about it ones either!!

 

[Badgers]

THAT'S what it reminded me of! Thanks, I think that's probably what it is.

Or so it would have you think?

 

[iona]

Definitely not a crow, and it doesn't sound very seagully. Fuck knows why there would be a goose on the roof but it does sound like one

I would investigate but I'm fucked if I'm trying to look on the roof at six in the morning so we'll probably never know.

 

[spawnofsatan]

I have a bird that lands on the roof at 6am every day and makes a sort of honky squawking noise. It must be fairly big because it lands with a right thump and you can hear it pitter-pattering about above you. Any ideas what this is, oh wise urbans? I want to make friends with the people in the top flats across the road and kill it with an air rifle from their window.

Batman

 

[spawnofsatan]

Or maybe spring-heeled jack?

 

[iona]

FFS you are not taking this seriously at all

 

[spawnofsatan]

I am, you're the one that can't be arsed to get up early and see for yourself

 

[Greebo]

FFS you are not taking this seriously at all

Local folklore (okay, relatively local) is serious.

 

[iona]

It's on the fucking roof! What am I meant to do, hang around hoping it'll fly away past me really slowly so's I get a decent look at it?!

What are the legal implications of shooting batman with an air rifle?

 

[spawnofsatan]

Could be a Robin