Help me identify this bird from its song!

[OnTheRunWithMannyMontana]

Please help as this is driving me mad.

Every year around this time a bird returns to the trees and bushes next to our house. I have never seen it but it has a really distinctive call.

This is going to sound a bit odd but it's a constant tweet tweet tweet tweet that goes on for about a minute and the tweets are a second or two apart, the tweet is always the exact same pitch and volume.

I have been through the RSPB website and can't match it up to any of the bird calls on there!

We are in a semi rural location, on the edge of a housing estate in West Yorkshire next to a lot of farmland and fields and forests. It's as green as the eye can see if that helps at all.

Any ideas?

chiff chaff?
(though the chiffchaff had two notes I'd say, it does go on rather as you describe - and many come here in spring to breed)

There’s a great app called BirdNET which you can use to identify bird calls.

It might not be a summer visitor though, as lots of birds do just start singing around now, to establish territories for breeding, even though they have been lurking about all winter as well. Like nuthatches - nuthatch is more monotonous but more of a rhythm..

so possibly not either of those!

ooh yes @AtomicBlondeRose good shout!

It's louder than the chiff chaff I think, and doesn't have the rhythm of the nuthatch. It's more monotonous.

Like it sounds more like a call than a song of that makes sense?

My cats are going nuts listening to these 😂

There's an app called Merlin which identifies bird calls too - it's great!

We had visiting greenfinches once and their call is a monotonous tweet sound. It was driving me mad by the end of the season 😄

The greenfinch call is too fast I think, this is a lot slower. Off to find the birdnet app now!

Are

Wren

Great tit.

Green finches are like that. (So are house sparrows, but you probably know that already.)

I'd suspect it's a wren. They are tiny but very loud compared to their size.

Sparrow (house)

Definitely not a wren. The tweets are a second or so apart like it's shouting rather than a song like the wren.

Hmmm a bird that goes tweet…. Let me a have a think 🤣

😂😂 I know it sounds odd! I get it's like when someone asks about a song that starts dum de dum de dum 😂

It's just so distinctive!

My eldest DD (18) is quite in to birds and things it's a woodpecker. Aren't they quite rare though?

No need for name calling 🙄

A Wren - it has a loud, ‘shouting’ call as well as a song. I was listening to one yesterday! Also, they like to hide in hedges and the like.

Omg I've found it! It is a woodpecker. I'm quite excited now!

Common Woodpeckers are very, um, common!

Funnily enough the first thing I thought of was woodpecker. Just googling! I need to know the answer. Might have to phone my mum!

www.british-birdsongs.uk/great-spotted-woodpecker/

Really? I never knew that!