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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Each summer there’s a bird (I’m assuming it’s a bird) that starts calling around our house between mid May to early June. It’s likely one of the summer visitors, as all our resident breeders start long before. It makes a single, high, metallic ‘plik’ note every 4 to 5 seconds, and it sounds like nothing so much as a smoke detector with a low battery warning. The sound appears to come from high in the trees, although it’s very hard to localise. We live on the Juanita hill in Kirkland, in mixed deciduous and coniferous woodland between St Edwards State Park and Big Finn Hill park. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Does anyone have any suggestions what it might be? If I can narrow it down a bit, I can check with the Cornell audio library. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Louise Rutter<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Kirkland<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>