Hi,
can anyone help with this bird?
I live in the country in SW France close to the Pyrenees. There are fields and hedgerows all around. There is a small deciduous wood adjoining our land and the bird is in there but not visible.
The call is strident, loud and clear. Main times are morning and evening but it is not limited to those times. I know some of the birds that live here and their calls and it is not: green woodpecker, jay, magpie, crow, buzzard, nuthatch, blackbird alarm or starling. Hoopoe and Golden Oriole visit but in summer.
Now the hard part. The main call is repeated often and goes weee-you, weee-you. Then there is wheep, wheep, wheep, and many more in that vein. There is no singing as such and it gets monotonous after a while - it is a very vocal bird.
My first guess is a Mynah bird on drugs. My second is Mistle Thrush but there is no melodious singing or that rattling flight call. Do they just call as opposed to sing at certain times?
Any ideas?
can anyone help with this bird?
I live in the country in SW France close to the Pyrenees. There are fields and hedgerows all around. There is a small deciduous wood adjoining our land and the bird is in there but not visible.
The call is strident, loud and clear. Main times are morning and evening but it is not limited to those times. I know some of the birds that live here and their calls and it is not: green woodpecker, jay, magpie, crow, buzzard, nuthatch, blackbird alarm or starling. Hoopoe and Golden Oriole visit but in summer.
Now the hard part. The main call is repeated often and goes weee-you, weee-you. Then there is wheep, wheep, wheep, and many more in that vein. There is no singing as such and it gets monotonous after a while - it is a very vocal bird.
My first guess is a Mynah bird on drugs. My second is Mistle Thrush but there is no melodious singing or that rattling flight call. Do they just call as opposed to sing at certain times?
Any ideas?