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Identify bird song
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There's a bird, which I can't see, singing somewhere in the garden. It sounds to be high up in some tall hedge or tree. The 'song' is a constantly repeated phrase on one high note : 'tinker-tinker-tinker-tink' [pause of a few seconds] 'tinker-tinker-tinker-tink' [pause again] and so on
Any idea what it is?
Any idea what it is?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I would have said a Great Tit, but if you go here, you can listen to the song of the likely birds to give a positive ID
http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name /a/index.asp
http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name /a/index.asp
Hmm. Sounds like it must be a great tit, if the bird keeps repeating the same phrase. This bird was not as much like a 'rusty bicycle' as the bird in the RSPB recording. It was more like the coal tit's first phrase on the RSPB recordings, repeated incessantly but with a marked pause between repeats .
Perhaps it's great tit which hasn't learned its full range yet, or it's one with a local dialect ( East Anglian here) ;) !
Perhaps it's great tit which hasn't learned its full range yet, or it's one with a local dialect ( East Anglian here) ;) !