Hello, and wish me luck! I’m going to post a short video I took yesterday, in an attempt to record the sound of this bird. (Also pardon the bathtub, I was standing at the bathroom window).
I hear this call all the time in my yard in North Florida. To me, it sounds like the bird is saying “Rickety, rickety, rickety.” I’ve never seen the bird, and haven’t been able to identify the sound with an app, so I turn to you guys!
The bird calls twice during the video, the best capture is at about 10 seconds.
I would suggest you get the Merlin bird ID app. It’s free and it identifies all the birdsong it hears. I would recommend it even without this question because it’s fun.
I did, and it is fun! My dogs were very patient until I played the barred owl call and then they all jumped up barking and looking for it.
I’ll try again going through the list, because I heard some birds that sounded capable of making the call, but none that actually said “rickety”.
I haven’t yet figured out if it can listen to my video clip. I just went through and listened to the samples it gave of birds in my area.
It can record and identify also, but I haven’t heard a peep out of the feathery little stinker since I downloaded the app.
I just played the video while holding up my phone with Merlin active, and it’s telling me you’ve got a Carolina Wren. They’re common in Northern Florida, according to Merlin.
If you ask me, forget AI: Merlin is the best technology to come along in the last fifteen years.
Merlin does fall under the umbrella of AI. Specifically I believe it works by Fourier analysis of spectral bird calls and then uses trained machine learning algorithms to identify.
Thank you! I played the sample and it doesn’t sound exactly like what I’m hearing, but it does make sense. We’ve got loads of them. I had to move a nest with a tiny egg out of the garage the other day, maybe “rickety” is a bad name I’m being called.
Oh, we have a Carolina Wren in the back yard. I mean, we probably have a pair, but i only ever notice the male, declaring his territory.
It’s a tiny, inconspicuous thing. What birdwatchers sometimes call an LBJ (little brown jobbie). The first time i noticed him, he was right outside my window, and i simply couldn’t believe that such a tiny bird was making such a big noise. I literally watched the skin on his neck go in and out in time to the call for a while before i believed that incredibly loud bird call was coming from him.
I’m pretty sure we have Carolina wrens here in southern Ontario, and in fact a Google search confirms that they’re common in the Greater Toronto Area, Windsor, Hamilton, and some outlying areas. I’m sure I’ve heard them both in the previous house within the city and in this one way out in the burbs. Google also says they tend to be year-round residents, and I definitely know I’ve been hearing them for at least a month now, and probably much longer.
Another bird sound that’s common around here is the mourning dove, though I only hear those in summer. I’ve only ever heard sound #1 in this video:
For the last few years I have referred to Carolina Wrens as Tweetle-Deetles. They make an amazing variety of sounds; if I turn on Merlin for a minute or so I always catch one.
