"Stubby" wrote in message
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A cricket, maybe?

I'm familiar with their sound. It isn't the same, but that doesn't mean
they don't make different sounds. I'll let you know if I figure it out.
Maybe I will just have a houseguest for awhile . . .I'm growing
accustomed to its sound. I just wanted whatever it is out for obvious
reasons and that it not starve before it can be caught and set free. If
it's a bat, it seems it's in more than it is out. I don't know what
happens while I'm sleeping.

Seems odd the cat doesn't show more curiosity about it. She's a good
mouser and caught a chipmunk by the tail when one got in my computer
room. I made her drop it, it hid in a corner, I isolated it by closing
the door and getting the cat out and left some peanuts and water out.
In the morning there were peanut shells all over my keyboard. I opened
the screen a couple inches and left some peanuts on the windowsill and
the next day the peanuts hadn't been eaten and it was gone. I don't
think the cat got it.

The woodpecker eventually flew into the top of the closet and climbed
into a small computer peripheral box. I clamped the lid down tight when
I found it and took it outside and set it free.

This one has me stymied. For now. It's just chirping away as I write,
every few seconds.



I Love Lucy wrote:
It has a medium high-pitched, short chirp or cheep, one-time, stops a
bit then repeats, all times of the day or night then stops for
lengthy periods. I thought chipmunk, but they are usually more
repetitive vocally when they get going. I can't pinpoint where this
is, I have a cat so it is probably hiding, suspect the heat ducts but
not sure because the sound seems to alternate between the dining room
and spare bedroom, kitchen or back hall, it is hard to track the
sound. This has been going on for about a week now. I thought I
might be hearing things, but my daughter was here and heard it and
asked what it was.

I bought a havahart live trap for smallish creatures, had a dickens
of a time getting it set, daughter figured out the final step, and
loaded it with sunflower seeds and a peanut. Nothing has happened
yet.