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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>It is the black-headed grosbeak, thank you. That makes sense, as it starts up around the time they arrive. Cornell has it here, under the first listing of ‘calls’ with the same regularity.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><a href="https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-headed_Grosbeak/sounds">https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Black-headed_Grosbeak/sounds</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Thank you everyone for all the suggestions. I would love it to be nighthawks, as they would be a wonderful returning rarity around here (I know they’ve started to recover a little in the Seattle area after an absence), but that peent call is too drawn out. I knew tweeters wouldn’t let me down!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Louise Rutter<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Kirkland<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Steve Hampton <stevechampton@gmail.com> <br><b>Sent:</b> 04 June 2022 07:39<br><b>To:</b> louise.rutter@eelpi.gotdns.org<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Tweeters] Smoke Alarm Bird ID<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#073763'>A Black-headed Grosbeak "pik" note sounds like this, but is generally not regular and repeated much. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#073763'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#073763'>If it's very regular and repeated, then it's a squirrel of some type <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#073763'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#073763'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:#073763'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Sat, Jun 4, 2022 at 7:36 AM Louise Rutter <<a href="mailto:louise.rutter@eelpi.gotdns.org">louise.rutter@eelpi.gotdns.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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 style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>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 style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Louise Rutter<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>Kirkland<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>_______________________________________________<br>Tweeters mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Tweeters@u.washington.edu" target="_blank">Tweeters@u.washington.edu</a><br><a href="http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters" target="_blank">http://mailman11.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/tweeters</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#073763'>Steve Hampton</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Port Townsend, WA (<span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:black'>qatáy</span>)<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>