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The noise wasn't in bursts - was definitely not a woodpecker.
Imagine someone hitting a fence post with a heavy mallet, they wouldn't go 123 123 1234, it was 1....................2...........................3

Gosh it's difficult explaining rhythm in words :-(

1 This mallet is very heavy .....2 this mallet is very very heavy 3

when we had the cabin, we often used to hear woodpeckers at work down on the flatland ................ and the cabin was much further away than 50 yards. We jad a very good pair of binoculars that we used to prove it was a woodpecker.

The noise wasn't always constant .............. it often came in bursts of 3 or 4, or 10, then a break.


but that was a Canadian woodpecker :-D

mmmmm ......may have run a bit faster if I'd seen that, Mayfield :-0

Might be a foot long death-watch beetle! :-0

Definitely not a woodpecker. It sounded like someone hammering in fence posts using a mallet. and wasn't a regular sound. There would be 2 or 3 bangs, then a gap, then maybe 4 or 5 bangs, then 1 or 2 - they weren't regular.
Much louder, slower and denser than a woodpecker, I said we could hear it from 50 ft - it was 50 yards - so definitely didn't need headphones! :-D

It was a very still day, that was getting warmer.

I think it was about to fall, but I'm intrigued about how long it will take.

Umm - who owns the land? The people my sister works for are in the process of buying it.
There are quite a few trees that have fallen along the bridleway, we were doing an amateur assessment of how much of the woodland would need to be removed, through age and instability, (and how that could be done) once it was theirs, so we could give potential treefellers some idea of the state of the place, before getting estimates!!

Patchem - that's a wonderful idea!

Oooooo! Memories, Knock, Knock...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZdBIH-Lado



Edit: or, if you prefer dancing to Black Bottoms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc8Z1c0mVog

Btw Jemma , loved the tree scenery. xx <3

ooooooh Maggie :-S

The Sasquatch have finally reached the UK :-0 :-0 :-0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibVtnOlEeJ4


:-D :-D :-D

Must be the ents

The Woodpeckers are busy around us at the moment and we hear quite a lot of knocking !!!!.We have one Green Woodpecker that we often see doing the pecking :-D

Just found these video`s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQRS7cgh-is


These are the ones I have heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3rUvGoV1Vo

During the big flood, Moses was obliged to remove the pair of pesky Woodpeckers from his wooden Ark to avoid a sinking.

No lifeboats in those days. No point since everyone else died in the watery deluge.

Yes surprising how loud woodpeckers are!

I think Sylvia is right, :-)
I have heard the knocking sound before and it was a woodpecker.
Usually the sound is fairly rapid, and its not made by the sound of its beak tapping against the tree as most folk think, it comes from the bird itself.

Not as loud as a knock, but for information:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/may/06/art.conservation

I have been to Hillier's Arboretum with a primary school group, and listened to trees by putting my ear to the trunk - but you need the right conditions.

I think the tree is ready to topple. Do you know who owns the land?

you sure there wasn't a woodpecker working away?

:-D :-D

It was the creaking that made us move away. It's a big tree!

We could hear the knocking from over 50 ft away, it was very loud.

Don't be scared.......it's only The Green Man.

:-D

knocking from trees?

Sister, friend and I were exploring some woodland with a bridleway through it. We climbed a slope and heard a loud knocking sound.
We could see two cars in the distance and I assumed someone was knocking in fence posts, friend and sister said it sounded like someone was trying to start a chainsaw.

We came down the slope, and, walking along the bridleway (the knocking was still happening), I stopped by an old beech tree. I called the others back - 'The sound sounds like it's is reverberating off this tree' I said.

We stood there - no, the sound was coming FROM the tree. We stood there for a while, until the tree 'knocked', wondering if it was an animal, then the tree creaked (hence sounding like someone starting a chainsaw), at which point - we scarpered!!!!!

Anyone else ever come across this? I believe the tree was partially hollow. Sister lives nearest, so is under instruction to check the tree out, to see if it falls :-S