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Apologies for the lousy video but i can't just link sound.

Bird looks about the size of a big starling small dove. "Sings" most evenings/nights from about now till mid to late summer but it's blooming useless at holding a tune, in fact the first time i heard it i assumed it was lots of recordings.

The main sound in the video is all the same bird.

Its quite loud sat outside my window.


 
Posted : 01/03/2017 7:24 pm
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Song thrush?


 
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Song thrush?


I had that once. Kept warbling every time I went for a pee

IGMC


 
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Mistle Thrush Perhaps.


 
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๐Ÿ˜€ nicko


 
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Baby Robin. Obvs.


 
Posted : 01/03/2017 7:35 pm
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rspb probably has an [url= https://www.rspb.org.uk/birds-and-wildlife/bird-and-wildlife-guides/bird-a-z/a/ ]audio file for every bird in the country A-Z good luck[/url] ๐Ÿ™‚


 
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Baby Robin. Obvs

Not a chance, I've had wheel size debates in this house so it'd be dead by now

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rspb probably has an audio file for every bird in the country A-Z good luck

Everyone knows stw has all the knowledge of the internet and is a better source of answers than Google and one of those old ask any question text services combined


 
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Thrush.


 
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But yes sing thrush sounds about right listening to the recording on the rspb.

Cheers folks


 
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the first time i heard it i assumed it was lots of recordings.

's great, isn't it - like a little sampling machine. Sometimes I think I recognise some of the sounds as car and house alarms from the local area, possibly even old mobile ringtones and game sound effects from way back. Who knows, maybe they have a kind of oral tradition whereby old 'samples' are passed on to successive generations.

In my mind, anyways... ๐Ÿ™‚

Lovely sounds on a summer's evening albeit to the detriment of just about any other sound.


 
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Zero TR?


 
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Thrush

AAAAAH AAAAAAH
HE SAVED EVERY ONE OF US!


 
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There was a bird in my old bosses yard that mimicked the proximity alarm, so well in fact, that jobs were stopped to see who was walking in.
And yes, song thrush, they like the sound of their own voice.


 
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like a little sampling machine

First time i heard it i thought [url= ]echo blaster[/url] (which it seems either I'm making up or Google has forgotten)


 
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Starlings are amazing mimics, they will imitate things like phone ring tones. Thrushes repeat the same phrase, or similar few notes several times, then do another, then another; blackbirds never repeat notes, it's a continually changing song, which is how you can tell them apart.
Mistle thrushes don't repeat, but their song is more hurried and less fluid than the blackbird.
Neither thrush is that common any more, but blackbirds are often around, I've got a regular pair around my garden, they're always after the bits of sunflower hearts the finches and sparrows drop.
http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/information/tutorials/tutorial01.htm


 
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This ones not a blackbird: they are clearly very clever and sit on the decking quietly till you open the door, then sing for breakfast (otherwise they sing if you've had a lie in and you're more than about ten minutes late, clever but none too patient). Oddly they actually seem to take it in turns to eat rather than scrambling over one another, not like the starlings which apear enmasse and look happy to eat each other in their rush to feed. They do look awesome when settling down for the night mind but also scare the house martins off ๐Ÿ™

Thrush not being common anymore would explain why the song sounds familiar from my youth but not recently before we moved here.

It's definitely not the pair of tawny owl anyway!


 
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