Birdsong all day long

[Twoddle]

Can someone identify that loud incessant birdsong that goes on all day long from dawn to dusk? They sound like a squeaky wheel that won't stop. You can hear them in the trees up at One Tree Hill but they seem to be everywhere.

Doing some research the nearest I could find was the Great Tit but not exactly sure, it's close though.

http://www.british-birdsongs.uk/great-tit/

[????]

Parrakeets?

[Seabag]

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> Parrakeets?

I think they're either 'SQAAAAAARK' or burbling and quite chatty, well in behind my house in Sydenham anyway. Unless the ones in your area have adopted the 'squeaky wheel' sound bite

But the Blackbird might be the 'culprit' this time of year

[goosey-goosey]

Not greenfinches, by any chance? They tweet like crazy though maybe not all day.

[Sue]

It's definitely the Great Tit.

Known in my house as the Squeaky Wheel Bird.

ETA: Blackbirds have a beautiful song nothing like a squeaky wheel.

Their alarm call is different, but you wouldn't be hearing blackbirds' alarm calls constantly. You usually hear it if there is a cat around.

And parakeets are certainly squeaky, but far more strident.

The great tit is deffo like a squeaky wheel which keeps on turning. It's one of the few bird calls I recognise, ever since I lived on a farm and the squeaky wheelness was pointed out to me by one of the farmers ....

ETA: I think the birds are singing a lot at the mo because it's their mating/nesting/defining their territory time.

[Seabag]

Forever to be known as 'The Great Squeaky Tit'

[uncleglen]

Yes it's brilliant that they actually exist considering the number of cats around here.....

[Seabag]

A bird expert was talking about Cuckoos on R4 tonite at around 9:40, blimey they are the craftiest buggers

To thrive they've evolved fake egg patterns, to match their brood birds of choice

Look up the programme, it was very good

[DulwichFox]

Leaving ones window open on a hot summers night... The little buggers are up at 3.00am..

Long before the first aircraft...

DulwichFox