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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/

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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

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.

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