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fredpuli47 | 13:56 Sun 16th Mar 2008 | Animals & Nature
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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?
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Sounds similar to a blue tit to me.
Both Great tit and Chaffinch can make a "chink" sound. A Great Tit has been likened to a rusty bicycle - sounds like "teacherteacherteacher". The BBC website has birdsong which you can listen to
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
You have just described a Great Tit song. Only other likely one is a chaffinch call which is pink pink pink but not repeated ad infinitum as per the Great Tit- so pretty definitely Great Tit- it always fools a lot of people in the spring
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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) ;) !

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