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Trying to Identify a Sound

JD

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I've been talking about this over in the Random Thoughts thread, but I figured rather constantly interrupting that thread I'd just spin this off into it's own thread.
For anybody who hasn't followed that thread, several times over the last few weeks, I've been hearing a strange sound I can't identify coming from across the street from my neighborhood, and I'm trying to figure out what it is. There is another neighborhood over there, but it's got bigger properties with room for horses and things like that. It's pretty much all houses over there, so I'm almost positive whatever it is is someone's pet or farm animal, not something wild
The Sound is definitely some kind of animal, I've been thinking it might be some kind of equine, like a donkey or mule, but I'm not entirely sure. I don't think it's any kind of bird, and I know it's definitely not a dog or other canine, or a cat. I'm not 100% sure, but I don't think it's a horse, I've never really been around them, but I think I know the sounds they make and this is not one of them.
The short sounds this donkey makes between the bigger brays almost sounds a tiny bit like it, but's not quite it.
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It's kind a quick, sharp, hyut-hyut hyut-hyut sound. I noticed it seems to be happing right around the same time, early in the morning, so I'm wondering if maybe it's someone being let out for the day or getting their breakfast.
My mom is better at this kind of thing, so I've been trying to get her to hear it, but we haven't had any luck yet.
The problem I've been running into is that it's kind of random, and it's so quick that I can't really record it. I usually hear while I'm out walking the dogs, so my hands are pretty full too. The speed is also part of what's making it hard to identify, because by the time I realize I just heard it's, it's already done.
 
I know you said you don't think it's a bird, but geese make some pretty loud honks in the morning.
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Also capable of a weird call that doesn't always even sound like it's made by anything living: guinea fowl.

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People keep them on larger properties like they would chickens, and I read that they're very good at keeping things clear of ticks. Anyway, sometimes the sound they make is more like someone wrenching on scrap metal than it is any sort of animal sound.
 
Neither of those are it, but that is the first time I've ever heard a Guinea Fowl, and that is a weird sound.
 
I mean its a bit far fetched, but maybe:
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I was also going to suggest llamas. They make these kind of high pitched "hut-hit-hut-hut" noises. Alpacas kind of "hmmmmm" sounds and can "scream" when alarmed, but I don't know that they bray or make a "hyut-hyut" sound. Another possibility for an early morning animal might be foxes, who can make a high pitched kind of tutting sound.
 
I don't think we have foxes out here.
It's fairly loud, so I'm pretty sure whatever it is is pretty big.
I know I just started this thread, but I think at this point I'm gonna give up even trying to figure it out.
It's just so quick, and so random I can't really get a good enough idea to really identify it.
 
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