Yep it's my favorite sound as well. In fact, BrenJahLee gave me a CD where that's all it is - so I can listen to them for an hour or so while I fall off to sleep.

It's the tree frogs.

I bump and chirp in the nite quite often :-P

if you go to forum member lizarbeth's web site she has a link to an audio of tree frogs, I believe it's actually done by the author of Walk Good.

www.lizardbeth.com

That's what I suspicioned... I'll check out those links... would love to have the sounds on cd or in an email.

What other Jamaica sounds have you heard (day or night) that you wondered about ?

Like that very comedic sounding black bird... you'd think by the way he chatters that it would be a beautiful parrot... but no, just an ordinary looking black bird. Sometimes I've heard them chatter at night and wonder if it is really the bird?

That bird is known as a Kling-Kling :)

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh thank you Legends!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(((((((((((((((((((((Big Hug hope you don't mind))))))))))))))))))))))

I might have been told that before but had forgotten... and now I know...

I think it is what we call peenie wallie...they chirp and they have lights on them...other then that it might be the frogs, especially if you are in the country area, excuse me that is not politically correct...rural area.

Antillean Grackle ... after doing a Google Search this is what I learned...

The Greater Antillean Grackle known locally as the "Kling, Kling" bird lives up to his name when he starts making his "kling, kling" call. They love handouts and scraps of food and are not very shy especially when they are looking for a snack.

Jamaica has eight (8) different species of birds that are black in "colour", most of which are commonly called black birds by the layperson. These are the Greater Antillean Grackle (or Kling-Kling), Smooth-billed Ani (or Savanna Blackbird or Ani), Jamaican Crow (or Jamicrow), Greater Antillean Bullfinch (or Black Sparrow), the Jamaican Becard (or Judy or Rickatee), the Turkey Vulture (or John Crow), the Shiny Cowbird and finally the Jamaican Blackbird (or Wildpine Sargeant). Only the latter of is endangered and is restricted to increasingly disappearing mature rain forest of Jamaica’s interior mountains which now covers less than 6% of the island. The Jamaican Blackbird is the only species in a Jamaican endemic genus of bird species, with the result that it is not closely related to any other Jamaican bird or indeed to any other species of bird world-wide. How it got here and where its closes relatives are to be found are totally unknown to science. It is possibly our islands most endangered bird species and is in urgent need of scientific study.

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Copied & pasted from:

www.cockpitcountry.com/Black%20Birds.html

Here I am modeling my Greater Antillean Grackle outfit...

Don't worry Streamertail ... I think I'm harmless in this gidup.

Bashment... thanks for that info... personally, I like "the country side" & since it's my thread... no worries on being PC.