Bird Call? (1 Viewer)

redshift

Toad Popper

• Apr 10, 2005

• #1

Fife: Vane Farm RSPB up on the hill, bare birch tree, last week. A distinctive whistled repetitive "low-hi-hi-hi-low-hi-hi-hi-low-hi", then a pause and then repeated. Went on for a couple of minutes, I circled the tree but was completely unable to find the bird! Any ideas? I recognise basic calls only, this was "different".

 

Jos Stratford

Eastern Exile

Staff member

• Apr 10, 2005

• #2

Instinctive guess is that any 'different' call often comes from the mouth of a Great Tit, the master of many noises. They do have the repetitive element you describe.


Edit. Hmm, but a single bare tree? Maybe not!

 

Last edited: Apr 10, 2005

redshift

Toad Popper

• Apr 10, 2005

• #3

Jos Stratford said:

Instinctive guess is that any 'different' call often comes from the mouth of a Great Tit, the master of many noises. They do have the repetitve element you describe.


Edit. Hmm, but a single bare tree? Maybe not!

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Bare tree in a wood on the hillside.

Couldn't find it though.

I went through the entire Birdguides DVD and couldn't hear a match, and did also read pretty much what you said in Simon Barnes' Bad Birdwatcher book: "if you hear a call you haven't heard before, it's a Great Tit"!

 

Hotspur

James Spencer

• Apr 10, 2005

• #4

When i went to Vane Farm last autumn there were quite a few Great Tits and not a lot else on the slope behind the visitor centre and they made some odd noises.

Also did itsound like a rusty bike pump? That is a Great Tit!

 

digi-birder

Well-known member

• Apr 10, 2005

• #5

Blue Tit?

 

redshift

Toad Popper

• Apr 11, 2005

• #6

digi-birder said:

Blue Tit?

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No way, not like any I have ever heard.

Quite musical and fluted, unhurried, a slow rhythm.