Bird song

[Jinglepot]

Can anyone recommend a site where I could try to identify a particular bird song which I hear every evening in my garden. I found a couple of sites but no luck with the song.

[scubadiver]

try www.rspb.co.uk

Go into the section marked "birds" and there is an alphabetical list. Against each one, is a "speaker" logo. click on it and you will hear a snippit of birdsong.

A bit longwinded if you don't have a clue what type of bird it is, but you could start by listening to the most common garden birds & progress form there.

[Jinglepot]

Thank you scubadiver, I'll start going through the list and keep my fingers crossed I'll be able to identify it.

[Cetti]

To help you out a bit on this mammoth session Jinglepot, I've jotted down few that might help. Some like the Blue Tit (helpfully!) have more than one song. Good luck and I'm pretty sure others will add a few more for you.

Blue Tit, Great Tit, Coal Tit, Blackcap, Dunnock, Greenfinch, Goldfinch, Willow Warbler, Garden Warbler, Wood Warbler. Linnet, Chaffinch, Wren.

[Jinglepot]

Thanks Cetti, I've gone through all your suggestions as well as a lot of others from the site. Nothing matching as yet, but will keep trying!

[heathfield]

Blackbirds will often sing very late into the evening, and can start up again before dawn. Beautiful to hear, and hard to imagine that it's a territorial competition with other blackbirds. If you listen carefully, you may hear the distant blackbird it's responding to.

[Cetti]

The Mistle Thrush and the Song Thrush have beautiful songs and are particularly lovely during the evening.

I'm dying to know your mystery bird so please let us know if you have the time.