Another ID request N E UK please! (1 Viewer)

Hi,

Some of you may remember the Treecreeper I posted a couple of days ago. Well, after checking the usual sources I guessed that correctly. The new bird I spotted in my garden today however has me struggling for ideas. I heard the bird before I saw it, never heard a call like it, a repetitive barking chirp, vaugely reminiscent of a Pheasant but shorter and repeated 5 or 6 times. The resident Chaffinches and Tits didn't seem bothered by it so presumably not a bird of prey. Any ideas please:





Thanks,

Mark |=)|

It's a Mistle Thrush.

TWM said:

It's a Mistle Thrush.

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Thanks. TBH I thought it looked like some kind of Thrush but the call was nothing like I've ever heard from a Thrush. I checked that on the RSPB site and their recording of a Mistle Thrush is the familiar song I was expecting, so any thoughts re what I heard from this bird as I mentioned above?

It's the Mistle Thrush's alarm call - often described as being like a football rattle.

http://www.xeno-canto.org/recording.php?XC=59004

villager said:

It's the Mistle Thrush's alarm call - often described as being like a football rattle.

http://www.xeno-canto.org/recording.php?XC=59004

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OK, thanks for that. That's the first time I've heard it and exactly as the recording you posted. You can understand my confusion as it's nothing like the usual song :t: