Try this for flying squirrel audio: http://www.flyingsquirrels.com/Audio/index.html Dave Hejmanowski Delaware, OH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 6:47 PM Subject: Re: [Ohio-birds] I.D. Night Caller? > Karen, > > Your nocturnal calling critter sounds like it might be a flying > squirrel. I heard one for my first time at a friend's house, also in > Medina Co. Everything about your description matches what I heard. Very > mournful and ventriloquistic. Anybody know of a good sound file link so > that we might all learn to recognize this one? > Thanks. > > Craig Rieker > Parma OH > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "KG" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 2:56 PM > Subject: [Ohio-birds] I.D. Night Caller? > > >> At my mother's house in southwest Medina county last night I heard a >> bird call I could not identify. Mom says it has been calling for a >> week or more -- only after dark and until very late at night (at least >> until she finally falls asleep). She does not hear it during daylight >> hours. It is a lone bird, none of its calls are returned. In 31 years >> living there she has never heard anything similar. The call itself is >> a single plaintive descending shriek... 8-12 seconds apart, very loud, >> fairly clear. I don't believe it was an owl -- certainly none I'm >> familiar with. Its quality reminded me of a gull call, but much >> louder. I wonder if it could be some sort of misplaced domestic fowl. >> The calls are louder and softer, to suggest the caller is facing >> sometimes away and sometimes toward us. It seems to be emanating from >> approximately the same area every night, about 1/8 mile away, at a >> property that currently is unoccupied. Probably overgrown grassy and >> shrubby area with saplings -- >> a pond and dense woods are nearby. >> >> Any ideas? > >> Karen Gray >> Summit County - Copley Twp > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. > Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. > Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at > www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. > > You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: > http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS > Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]