Sunday, 3 September 2017

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Waking a little early this morning, I spent a little time listening to the sounds in the world around me.

One of which was a low squawking: squawk, squawk, squawk. With the squawks being several seconds in duration and with the inter-squawk gap a second or so. This went on for about five minutes.

I was reasonably sure that this squawking was coming from outside the house rather than inside. That it was not a cat, a dog or a fox. A bit low for a mouse which squeaks rather than squawks. Too sustained for a bat. Don't know about rats. A rat in pain?

We do get deer and badgers in the gardens and streets round about, but not that often. No idea what sort of noises they might make.

But I settled for an owl. A owl which, for some reason or another, was squawking rather than hooting, this last being a very distinctive nocturnal noise.

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