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Apologies no photos as the birds were too shy.
Location : Lancashire grass moorland.
Pairs of birds, brown with light fawn underneath the wings. About the size of a blackbird but possibly slightly smaller.
Song was that noise you make as a kid pretending to be a machine gun about one second long.
Any ideas?
Whereabouts Bill?
Immediate from the hip id would be a lark of sorts based on location and rough description
Along the lane from the a666 towards me, and in those fields. Quite a few pairs.
Never heard them before.
Flitting up and down ? Lark? peow peow peow???
Flitting up and down, yes.
Peow, no, more... Not sure how you spell a machine gun noise,.
TgrdTgrdTrgd!
Fieldfare. Maybe. But they're a bit bigger than a blackbird....
How about a Mistle Thrush? Bigger than a blackbird but the sound would be right.
Don't think it's a field fare or sky lark.
There was none of the musical bit in its song.
I'll try for a photo another day
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Then next time you hear them you'll get an ID
Two sparrows and a kid behind the hedge playing army?
Norweigan Blue?
Mistle thrush is my current favourite of those.
Thanks
Norweigan Blue?
Beautiful plumage, I hear.
Could be Mistle thrush or Nightingale alarm call, but moorland makes them less likely. Think this website of bird songs has already been posted? https://www.british-birdsongs.uk/common-nightingale/?type1545