A bird was calling on Friday morning as I carried the washed & squashed down the track for recycling. A very distinctive call, sounded like tattoo-tattoo-tattoo repeated in groups of 3, 5 or 7, but with the ‘a’ sounding more like ‘uh’ than the ‘a’ in hat. I can’t remember ever hearing it before, though I suppose I must have done, just not noticed or remembered.
Frustratingly no bird identification book or website these days seems to give phonetic versions of bird calls – just invites you to listen to hours of recordings.
