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Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 12:45

Al & Mrs Al (Vic)

I'm hoping someone might be able to help me. I go walking most mornings fairly early [6ish] we live semi rural so there's heaps of different types of animals and sounds, but one has me perplexed. The best way to describe it is like a foghorn except melodious and it seems to be coming from drains....but not all drains...and when i say drains I mean, the storm water pipe that goes underneath driveways to allow the water [when it rains heavily - remember that!] to flow through, we don't have footpaths so the sides of the road has grass channels to allow water flow. As I approach the "pipes" the noise stops and once I"m past it starts up again. This happens at three spots along the walk, but not any others. I was wondering if it was some sort of frog, for a while I thought it was the pipe itself, but then I dismissed this as a) I thought this was a crazy idea and last time I checked I was fairly sane and b) it's only 3 pipes and I pass by at least 15. If anyone has any ideas as to what the sound might be I would appreciate it.

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Lyn

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AnswerID: 208317   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 12:54

Mike Harding replied:

A pipe band? :)
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FollowupID: 468257   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 12:58

Al & Mrs Al (Vic) posted:

LOL playing the one note...haha...actually sounds like a clarinet, but with only one note...

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FollowupID: 468266   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:07

Member - Crazy Dog (QLD) posted:

What about a FROGHORN...

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AnswerID: 208319   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 12:59

Bonz (Vic) replied:

crickets?

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FollowupID: 468258   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 13:04

Al & Mrs Al (Vic) posted:

I was expecting "goats" from you... :)) nope no way is crickets......its a low sound, not a high sound ...

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FollowupID: 468259   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 13:05

Bonz (Vic) posted:

crickets with a cold?

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FollowupID: 468260   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 13:07

Mike Harding posted:

Crickets with a cold what...?
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FollowupID: 468261   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 13:16

Bonz (Vic) posted:

yannow the sniffles, its like drinking goats milk thru a straw

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AnswerID: 208320   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 13:30

Stu050 replied:

Cane Toad???
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FollowupID: 468269   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:21

Al & Mrs Al (Vic) posted:

not this far south I hope

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AnswerID: 208324   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:07

Member - Uncle (NSW) replied:

Hi Al, does it happen itermittently? About every 3 seconds say?? It can also sound like a cow in the distance??
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FollowupID: 468267   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:20

Al & Mrs Al (Vic) posted:

yes intermittently, definitely not a cow...

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FollowupID: 468270   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:28

Member - Uncle (NSW) posted:

We had been trying to track the same sound down for years, finally saw the culprit last winter.It is a breed of pidgeon, dark green and phisically as big as a chook. For some reason we only get him in our yard during the winter months, havn't seen him for a while now. We also heard it while camped at Dunolly and Maryborough vic for years and thought it was a cow that had maybe had its calf taken from her.
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FollowupID: 468273   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:32

Al & Mrs Al (Vic) posted:

ah so it's in the trees above the pipes...there's large cyprus trees and pine trees around where I hear the sound, so it's a large green bird I should be looking out for, yes does sound like a cow, at first that's what I thought it was too, thanks so much for that!


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FollowupID: 468278   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:59

Member - Uncle (NSW) posted:

Yeah it's a sort of a metallic dark green if ya know what I mean? Someone more up on bird talk will have the correct word for it Irradescent maybe??
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AnswerID: 208325   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:16

nowimnumberone replied:

if its only happening at 3 pipes its most definutly
the 3 billy goats gruff.
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FollowupID: 468268   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:21

Al & Mrs Al (Vic) posted:

perhaps it's a Troll

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FollowupID: 468274   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:33

Bonz (Vic) posted:

perhaps

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FollowupID: 468351   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 20:19

Des Lexic posted:

The Pipes, of coarse it's the pipes.
Them damned scots are everywhere breeding like a frenzy and then teaching the rug rats to play them.
If I were you, I'd stop taking early morning walks and put KY Gel on the bedroom door handle. That should deter them Scottish pipers when they return from Perth. You thought he was in Perth Western Australia didn't you. Well missy, Perth is in bluddy Scotland the damned sasenach.
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AnswerID: 208328   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:38

Member - 'Lucy' replied:


'Green pidgeons as big as chickens', 'Cane Toads', 'Billy Goats', 'Cows' etc etc.

Has there been a party that I have missed where there was a 'whip around and
p i s s up' using some sort of dodgy home brew.
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FollowupID: 468276   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:41

Al & Mrs Al (Vic) posted:

Weeeelll there was, but you were in KI, I am not hearing things..lol..well I am, but it's fair dinkum, the pidgeon makes sense as it's like a dove's call but different..lol...and I guess if you were green and as big as a chook, you could sound like a foghorn too...

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FollowupID: 468308   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 18:27

Footloose posted:

I worked with a woman like that years ago. Silly old chook, sounded like a foghorn and decidedly green on Friday night :))))))
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AnswerID: 208329   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 14:39

Motherhen replied:

I'm with Crazy Dog on this one
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AnswerID: 208353   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 17:19

Ole Grizzly replied:

Struth..sounds maybe it could be the male Forest Bronze Wing..has an air sack on the front of head above eyes...he can fill it with air, and the air escaping sounds like a distant cow....has me baffled how he'd attract a lady with that noise..maybe a frisky heifer.
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AnswerID: 208364   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 17:49

Big Kidz (Andrew & Jen) replied:

It might be something that is coming from within you and picked up by your hearing aide.
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FollowupID: 468310   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 18:36

Member - JohnR (Vic)&Moses posted:

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AnswerID: 208377   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 19:16

nowimnumberone replied:

after a wee bit of thinking about it ive now realised
its a lost haggis
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AnswerID: 208411   Submitted: Sunday, Dec 03, 2006 at 20:43

Jimbo replied:

Are you on an high fibre diet Lyn?
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AnswerID: 208448   Submitted: Monday, Dec 04, 2006 at 06:50

Member No 1 replied:

it might be the rare oomegooolies bird...the one with no legs....every time he comes into land he screams out

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AnswerID: 208494   Submitted: Monday, Dec 04, 2006 at 12:44

greydemon replied:

I'll have $10 on it being a frog.

Check your region here and I reckon that you will find a frog with the call you are looking for. In WA there is a frog which builds a tunnel which acts as an amplifier, I suspect that your frogs re lazy and are using the drainpipe instead.

frogs.org.au/frogs/state/Victoria/
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FollowupID: 468482   Submitted: Monday, Dec 04, 2006 at 12:56

Al & Mrs Al (Vic) posted:

hi there

I think you might do your $10, checked the site [thanks for the link a great site] but none of those frogs are making the right sound...it is like a dove's call but different...

cheers though, I did discover the name of a couple of frogs we've found about the place though

cheers
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AnswerID: 208840   Submitted: Tuesday, Dec 05, 2006 at 22:07

Hard Yaka replied:

yep i agree it's a frog i have the same problem where i live in the pilbara

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