Bird sound Germany Paderborn (1 Viewer)

[Andy Hurley]

I keep hearing a loud monosyllabic repetitive "weet weet weet weet etc" from my balcony this afternoon.
I am hopeless at bird song/calls/begging calls, so I would like your help to id it.

Thanks

 

[Valéry Schollaert]

Description is not enough. Try this:

http://www.xeno-canto.org/species/Sitta-europaea

 

[Andy Hurley]

thats not it. Its more one note of about half a second duration, same frequency, not changing in pitch but repeated for over 30 seconds continuously. But thanks Valéry.

 

[rockfowl]

A young Chiffchaff perhaps?

 

[Andy Hurley]

Thanks Mark, no not juv CC, about as loud not as harsh and repeated more frequently

 

[Valéry Schollaert]

Nuthatch have a lot of different accents, rythms, variations. If it lasts that long, it might well be one...

 

[Andy Hurley]

I don't think so because we don't have woods near us. We have a motorway to the east, residential with gardens to the west and north and open fields to the south. I listened to a few Nuthatch sounds at http://www.xeno-canto.org/ and they didn't fit.

 

[rosbifs]

Black redstart make a racket when they come off the nest....

 

[Andy Hurley]

Thank you Rosbifs, thats it! and they are around here

 

[Valéry Schollaert]

Well done!

 

[Andy Hurley]

Actually, Ifind it amazing that anyone can understand the interpretations of song that one finds in books, eg the Collins voice description for Common Sandpiper is "swididii-dide-swididii" etc. How can a bird pronounce swi without lips? If you look in german books the sound is interpreted diffrently, eg the ADAC Naturführer " Vögel" has the common sand as "hie-di-di". I suppose the "di-di" is the same in both.