Subject: [Tweeters] Re: ID of non-avian sound
Date: Feb 24 21:28:23 2005
From: Lee and Lori Cain - 4cains at charter.net


I have heard very similar sounds several times, always in marshy areas (King
Ave in Warrenton and the Astoria Airport Mitigation Bank). It always been
infuriatingly difficult to get close enough to the noise before it stops.
I am leaning towards a small rodent, perhaps meadow vole.

> While doing a census at Breaker Lake this morning I heard
> an unfamiliar, high, bell-like "peenk" repeatedly coming
> from the cattail marsh.

Lee Cain
Aquatic Biology/Integrated Science
Astoria High School
http://www.astoriaschools.org/ahs/AHS%20Science/all.htm
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