One for the birders..

[mike74]

I can I.d. some of the more common bird songs and calls but when in my local woods I frequently hear one type of bird which seems to sit high in the trees making a huge range of constantly varying chirps, whistles and songs.

It's almost like it's mimicking many of the regular songs and calls that other birds often make, one second the quite dulcet tones of a Blackbird then the next second the high pitched calls of a Wren.

I know Starlings are famous for mimicry but I'm very familiar with them and I'm sure it's not them, I suspect it's some type of finch, is there any finch which doesn't have a set call or song but instead just makes a constantly changing wide range of noises?

[Boosted LS1]

If the blasts are in 3's or repetitive then it's a song thrush. They can really bang it out at this time of the year :-)

[mike74]

Yes I have noticed it does many of the individual calls in threes, so that's possibly it then but they don't seem to be repetitive.

It's the sheer range of pitches, vocalisations and calls that amazes me, it never seems to repeat the same noise twice and that's what makes it most noticeable.

Edited by mike74 on Sunday 27th February 06:41

[Boosted LS1]

Would you describe the noise as 'piping', really loud and across a huge variety of notes, if so i'd say Thrush? If it's fluty and just the same notes being repeted then maybe a Great Tit. Noisey but not really any song to the human ear.

You can google both bird songs.

[55palfers]

Did it sound like this?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b01s89gk

[Evoluzione]

Green Parakeet

[Boosted LS1]

55palfers said:

Did it sound like this?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b01s89gk

I have one behind my house that sings now and again. It's a lovely sound.

[mike74]

I'll definitely go with Song Thrush, repeating something 2 or 3 times before moving on to a completely different call and repeating that 2 or 3 times... and so on and so on.

It's only really when you stay still and concentrate on listening to it that you realise it is the same bird making all those different calls and songs, otherwise you'd just think it was about 5 or 6 different birds all making their own individual calls.