Hi Hilke,

This time of year I would put my money on an insect.
Mark

On Sep 1, 2013, at 5:12 PM, Hilke Breder wrote:

> I need help id'ing these sounds which are coming from underneath a dense rhododendron 
> bush by our house,  very sporadic and lasting only a few seconds at a time. At first I thought it 
> was a bird, but was unable to locate one; now I'm wondering whether it's a toad underneath 
> the leaf litter. I saw a toad but it seemed much too small to make such a big sound. Also 
> none of the frog/toad sounds on the net sound like this. I finally managed to get a recording: 
> http://onejackdaw.com/Audio/unknown_9-1-13.mp3
> 
> Hilke Breder
> Brattleboro, VT
> 




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