Hi, NoC! Do you happen to know of an insect that makes a really loud, ratcheting-type sound? At first I thought it was a mocker imitating local agricultural equipment, but one morning the noise was coming from a marshy-looking area and there wasn’t a birdie in sight.
Could it be a frogcritter?
I’d need to hear it to see if it is anything in my experience list, but we have some strange sounding frog things around here. And yes, mockers can and will sound like many strange and unusual things so don’t count one of those out just because he was wearing camo that morning.. ;-)
Do you have cicadas in your area? We get them here periodically, but usually at seven-year intervals.’
I don’t like their sounds.