Hello everyone,
I have a bird 'living' very high up in the top of a row of red gum trees just outside the back yard fence. It has a descending trilling call both in the tree and when flying. Would l be correct in assuming it is one of the larks? The BA site does not supply calls of the larks and the call of the white wing triller is nothing like what l am hearing most of the daylight hours.
Thanks
Hi mtck, hard to tell, but I have Fan-tailed Cuckoos trilling out the back of my place all day. Have a listen to them. M-L
M-L
I would bet on Fan-tailed Cuckoos also :)
Scott.
Thank you Araminta and Scott.
I spent one and a half hours sitting at the stockyards yesterday with the binoculars looking the birds. They were calling from either side and l am confident that there are a more than two by the calls.
By the end of my sojourn l was cursing every leaf on every tree - surely dense vegetation is the curse of every twitcher!
Hi mtck, Now I'm absolutely convinced it IS a Fan-tailed cuckoo! I do the same out in the bush behind my house. I hear them everywhere, they call and trill, and I walk around with the camera, and can't find them. Once I posted a very bad photo. They are driving me nuts! Good luck, one day "I'm going to get them!!" M-L
M-L