Nuthatch, Tree Creeper, Goldcrest, Firecrest, Long-tailed Tit and Bearded Reedling calls

Nuthatch calls (Apr, Herts).











A more extended series of these notes (Apr, Herts).



Squeaky calls by a foraging bird (Apr, Herts).



Barely audible quiet calls between a foraging pair (Apr, Herts).


Families with fledged young make a variety of high pitched calls (June, Herts).

time scale reduced








Long-tailed Tits have several calls including chup, see, see-see-see, and srrra.

A pair at an incomplete nest (Apr, Suffolk).










(Apr, Herts).










see-see-see are similar to Goldcrest but always mixed in with the other calls.


srrra










Long-tailed Tit (lower) and Goldcrest (higher) calls together for comparison (Dec, Herts).




The commonly heard Tree Creeper call is a high trill (Dec, Herts).

(Apr, Herts).










flight calls at 7kHz at end of recording






Note that the trill is given repeatedly at dawn in song form



A series of rising calls (Apr, Herts).




Note how different is the piping call of the Short-toed Treecreeper, a very rare visitor to the UK south coast (Mar, Hungary). It recalls the Dunnock alarm call.

Goldcrest calls while foraging (Dec, Herts). There are three main call types, a trilled see-see-see, a clear rising syoo and various very short notes.

syoo

see-see-see











short notes followed by syoo syoo





This bird in a small tree with another appeared excited, although I couldn't determine why. The notes came in a continuous series (Apr, Norfolk).







Many Firecrest calls are extremely similar to those of the Goldcrest but this bird was located by its distinctly lower calls, actually very similar to some Long-tailed Tit calls (Dec, Herts).

Firecrest calling (June, Herts).

Bearded Tits or Reedlings are most often located by their calls (Nov, Middx)