Bird call identification.
- Thread starter Stuart J
- Start date
- Location
- South Wales UK
You tube has different calls on it.
Is it tree,ground,water etc ?
Any photo?
Is it tree,ground,water etc ?
Any photo?
- Location
- Eastern Ontario Canada
Landy Nick
Member
Have a look here.
https://www.british-birdsongs.uk
https://www.british-birdsongs.uk
- Location
- South West Scotland
Try Whaup (Curlew) ???
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Some birds make some very uncharacteristic calls at this time of he year, while defending territories. A crow here had me baffled for a few years!
Slippery Slope
Member
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Could be a Little Owl. Sometimes sounds like a cat meowing. We have a particularly noisy one here. 
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Could be a Little Owl. Sometimes sounds like a cat meowing. We have a particularly noisy one here.
I've just read the OP's interpretation of the sound out loud and it does sound like some sort of owl!
Hold on. There's a big van turned up at the door with a couple of chaps in white coats. Now what the hell do they want?
If there are seven of them, with distinctive bright plumage, long tails and hair over their ears, I'd say you definitely have Showaddywaddy living in a nearby tree.
caveman
Member
- Location
- East Sussex.
Theresa May?
Danllan
Member
- Location
- Sir Gar / Carms
Apart from a very, very few written descriptions of a bird's call (e.g. yellowhammer*), there is little less likely to explain the actual sound to another person, I write from experience...
*Generally accepted as: 'A little bit of bread and no cheese'
caveman
Member
- Location
- East Sussex.
A Google of the Stuart J description led me to the greater crested fly catcher.
What about the Chickadee or Killdeer.Apart from a very, very few written descriptions of a bird's call (e.g. yellowhammer*), there is little less likely to explain the actual sound to another person, I write from experience...
*Generally accepted as: 'A little bit of bread and no cheese'
- Location
- Welshman living in Nottinghamshire
This post just makes me happy to be a TFFer!
And you know we've all just done it out loud. All together now, wooooo-eep
- Location
- South Wales UK
I got a song thrush here that baffles me as throws different tunes all the time?
And a bird singing in the night.
Worked it down to possibly a robin???
And a bird singing in the night.
Worked it down to possibly a robin???