…walking along a rural canal towpath in Nottinghamshire. Across the canal, a small area of mature woodland, a country lane and arable farmland all round.
Couldn’t see it but the call was something I've not heard before – bird was concealed in the wooded area - sounded a lot like this…
www.british-birdsongs.uk/.../
…in particular, the constant repetitive nature of the call was distinctive – it continued for much longer than the bird in the attached sound clip.
sadly, no chance of seeing it.
Does anything else have such a repetitive rasping call? I've listened to partridge calls but they don't seem to match the constant repetitive bit.
Best regards
www.rspb.org.uk/.../ This link with information about the Corncrake. And beliw some photo’s ftom the Outer Hebrides on ny visit in 2019. No birds on my photo’s as didn't buy my first digital canera until March of this year, amthoufh i started birdwatching in 1958