Bird Id through song only

[emf]

Hi, oh Knowledgable Ones!

Both my neighbour and I heard a bird we've never heard before last night. It was somewhere high in the top of a pine tree, probably the size of a blackbird or thrush (but there may just coincidentally have been one of those sitting in the tree at the same time!)

The best way to describe its call is that it sounds like a squeaky wheel. sort of "wheeeeeeeeeeee" repeated at regular intervals each whe..... lasted about a second or so neither really high pitched nor low pitched.

If anyone can identify this bird for us from my dreadful description I'll be eternally grateful

[debnade]

Originally Posted by emf

Hi, oh Knowledgable Ones!

Both my neighbour and I heard a bird we've never heard before last night. It was somewhere high in the top of a pine tree, probably the size of a blackbird or thrush (but there may just coincidentally have been one of those sitting in the tree at the same time!)

The best way to describe its call is that it sounds like a squeaky wheel. sort of "wheeeeeeeeeeee" repeated at regular intervals each whe..... lasted about a second or so neither really high pitched nor low pitched.

If anyone can identify this bird for us from my dreadful description I'll be eternally grateful

Hi,

I'm not really sure from that discription, but could have been a goldcrest. They are very small, but can be hard to spot. Alternitive could be the firecrest. The goldcrest song sounds far too loud for the size of it, but it is very recognisable once you have identified it once.

Anyway, it's just a sugestion.
Deb

[Gill Catton]

Both the song thrush and the blackbird have an alarm call that could be described the way that you have though it's often referred to as the "seep" call and with newly fledged young about it could also be perhaps begging calls from them - they often sound a little odd!
I spent fifteen minutes the other day tracking a strage call from scrub - turned out to be a juvenille blackbird!!

[Wild-Woman]

Possible greenfinch. Seen them call from the highest point of a tree. They have a range of ineresting calls. ww

[Gill Catton]

Originally Posted by Wild-Woman

Possible greenfinch. Seen them call from the highest point of a tree. They have a range of ineresting calls. ww

Yes that's true!! Forty odd different kinds isn't it?! (or is that great tit.....)
The ones in my garden wolfwhistle it's ace!

[Alan]

How about a Starling?

[nightshade]

There are goldfinches in the garden and they make that sort of call it can become wearing

[Airehead]

Originally Posted by debnade

Hi,
The goldcrest song sounds far too loud for the size of itDeb

Does it? The ones I have heard while searching for them in a hedgerow have sounded almost eaxactly like shrews, with a high-pitched squeak not audible from any distance.
But perhaps that is not their only sound.

[henrya]

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The goldcrest song sounds far too loud for the size of it
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I was once in a Landrover, bouncing along a forestry track, with eight people all talking nineteen to the dozen, when the ornithologist amongst us said "Listen, Goldcrest!" and sure enough, there was one. But we had to stop and shut up before all of us could hear it!

henrya

[life through a lens]

Its probably worth checking out the above suggestions on the RSPB website (A-Z Birds) as most entries have sound recordings which could help further.

Alternatively you could try here.

Olly