At last - I have found what the bird song I have been hearing is. I`ve been searching through loads of videos and none of them described that 2 note call. This channel is so interesting. Thank you thank you.
I’m the same! That two note call always reminded of my childhood and it’s been driving me mad as I hear them all the time! So nice to know it was a lovely little Great Tit. This is a great video. 😊
A fantastic video! For the last five years I have had a few pairs nesting in my back garden. The mating call has been going on now for the last two weeks as well as exploration of the numerous bird boxes dotted around the garden. This vid gives an excellent explanation of those calls I hear all the time! Thanks.
Your videos are really very interesting and helpful in identifying different birds. Your meticulous recordings are such a wonderful resource. Thankyou.
I’ve been woken by these calls each spring for the past couple of years, but just this morning caught sight of a great tit at the same time. It won’t make me any less grumpy at 5am tomorrow, but it’s good to finally know who to blame!! (and to have identified another visitor to the trees behind my flat.)
Excellent footage Maurice, your skill, knowledge and patience make these videos a must for all those interested in wildlife...... Thanks for posting...... Thumbs up from me....... ATB Ian
Thank you for that! What an excellent video! I've been hearing the one at 3:24 for the last few days and couldn't figure out what it was. Then managed to spot that it was some kind of tit today so this really helped me nail it down as most websites just give the most common call and don't go into so much detail.
Teacher, teacher, very apt as you have taught me a few things. I loved the false alarm calls, I have often wondered if our British birds use a shared communication. Great video as always. Steve.
Thanks so much for your comments. Since I started taking more notice of bird songs and calls it's surprising just how much more I have seen that I probably wouldn't have even noticed before.
Yes they have a fantastic vocabulary, there is a saying that if your hear a bird in the garden and you don't recognise the sound it is most likely to be a Great Tit.
I have been hearing this two-note call at night/early hours in July & this video helped ID. I was wondering why the Great Tit would call at night, light pollution disturbing it's biorhythm as we live in London?
Thumbs up Maurice, I saw the Indian Great Tit a number of times in my premises & wanted to ask for ID ,so I first recorded how it approached my veranda & garden swiftly & quickly flew ,then I forwarded the video to India Birds Video, who provided their ID, but you have gone minutely through there song sequences & notes. I think the Indian Great Tit has more back on its underside not a greenish colour Also it's great to see how they approach you so closely to peck on those gourmet worms ,one even sitting on your hand you are really have worked hard to be able developed a trust in them to do so.
Wonderfully made, thanks so much. It has a call in there (at 3:00 minutes) which is exactly like the one I hear in my neighbourhood but wasn't able to find online anywhere else. Thanks again, I learned a lot from this video!
th new joy of having a family of 7 the babies are learning from their parents to eat from the bird balls i have put on easy to accede support . An Enchantment, I 've Put fresh water every day but do not think they touch it for drinking or bathing
Thanks Sonia, yes it is always a joy to watch the young ones. Keep on putting out the water as I an sure that they will soon start to use it and you will be able to watch them drinking and bathing.
They hang about in the birch trees behind my mum's house. They are relatively easy to spot, as their black head stands out against the white bark. Their song is very loud and insistent. Reminds me of the robin in that the Great Tit is quite territorial and likes to make its mark.
Today I heard the seldom call at 3:57 it was after a magpie probably ate one of their chicks. Is it possible they seek for their child with specifically this call?
Thank you Moeen. It takes a lot of patience, and live mealworms, to get to the stage where they trust you enough to feed from your hand, and they usually only do this when they have young ones to feed.
What a fantastic channel. I have a question. I heard a group of birds in my garden this morning calling to each other in turn. The sound was like little bells ringing. One was near my window, (bird 1) he'd do a short tinkling bell sound, like a teeny-weeny Christmas bell, then bird 2 (somewhere else in my garden) would do the same, then bird 3, then 4. This circle of little bells repeated about 5 times before they all flew off. It was almost like they were doing a head count on a school trip. So sweet. Do you think they were blue tits?
Has anyone tried to analyse bird calls in terms of music intervals? To me, the classic great tit 'teacher teacher' sounds like a descending perfect fourth. Is this right?
Keep strong. Dont forget that despite the struggles and madness in this world today, God is full of justice, mercy and love. Justice said we broke His perfect law - causing the world's previous perfection to be destroyed - and therefore we deserve Hell (like a punishment in any legal system but this is eternal as His perfect law is eternal too). Don't think you fit in that category? Ever done one of these?: lying, stealing - regardless of how small the object EVER, hating others - which is murder in God's perfect law, lusting (plus God sees our entire thought life). Justice says "the soul that sins shall die" - if we break one in thought/word/deed it's as if we're guilty of all of them. Quite simply, living by the law (which is doing everything perfectly) is impossible for sinful humans . The law shows us that 1. We will die in Hell if we fail to follow it and 2. We cannot save ourselves BUT, 3. God's perfect, immovable law points us to Christ, who followed and fulfilled the law in thought, word and deed perfectly in our place. He did what we couldn't and did it on our behalf. He was then sentenced to death on a cross, and took our personal punishment for our sin, paying our penalty (like paying our fine) completely FOR us, and has given us freedom. If we turn from the sins we have committed and repent (pursue the opposite direction of love through Christ) He will, overtime, recreate us back into that previously perfect image through The Holy Spirit which Jesus sends to all who accept Him as their personal Lord and Savior of their life. He will help us through the struggle, the stress, and anything we experience in the world. It's about letting Christ in to guide and teach you and obeying Him through His power (not ourselves, we need Him to help us as it's impossible without depending on His power and instruction). He is our substitute in His life, death and resurrection. He essentially rewrote history in our place so that, if you believe in Him, it will be as if you had never sinned if you accept Christ's death as our own in our place. He is in Heaven right now preparing a place for us so that He can take His faithful, believing children home with Him when He returns. He will ressurrect us from death when He returns, giving mercy to those who accept His love, instruction and teachings in their life, and give justice to those who refuse it. He doesn't want ANY of us to go to Hell and die for continuing in evil and rejecting His way to life, thats why He died FOR us. Hes giving EVERYONE a chance, He wants everyone to take the free gift of salvation from Hell. He wants us to be His and begin to follow His life of love and service through His power and abiding (staying) with Him. So long as we keep our hearts near to Christ through His strength, strive to follow His will of perfect love revealed in the Bible, and let Him lead in the midst of (very certain) pitfalls and struggles, we will, in time, win the ultimate victory over sin, pain and DEATH through Christ. Even if you are willing to be made willing, pray for Jesus to come in and He will do what we can't. Give us The Holy Spirit who will guide us in the right way. Christ says in John 16:33: I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace. In the world you have tribulation and distress and suffering, but be courageous [be confident, be undaunted, be filled with joy]; I have overcome the world.” [My conquest is accomplished, My victory abiding.] - (AMPLIFIED version) NOTE: You are NEVER too sinful or messed up that God cannot turn your life around through Jesus. EVER. Regardless of what you've done or what you're going through you CAN make it through Jesus. Xx
I can’t find my male tit calls anywhere he’s only started doing it this month breeding season it’s 4 syllables first is high then 3 lows I’ve been trying to record it in vain he only does it when he comes to eat on the feeder sometimes
I just found a baby of this birds he can’t fly yet so im hand feeding him until he gets bigger as no sign of mum or dad they are so cute and he already accepting food from me and he loves standing on my hand
I must admit it is very similar to the pinking call or the chaffinch, I still think that it may be the great tit. The chaffinch is usually just a two syllable phrase and this is a three syllable phrase with the first syllable being a quieter high pitched note. Thanks for the comment, I will look a bit further into this though.
Jim Carry had it wrong in the movie Dumb & Dumber, the most annoying sound in the world goes to this tiny little cute bird, i have heard car alarms that are more melodic than this noisy little thing. :/
Now my wife knows which bird makes the sound she calls 'Takeshi's Castle' 😂 It reminds her of the calls made in the show just before the contestants were pushed down the water slide in wooden bowls 😂
At last - I have found what the bird song I have been hearing is. I`ve been searching through loads of videos and none of them described that 2 note call. This channel is so interesting. Thank you thank you.
Thank you Donna for your comments, I am pleased that you found this video helpful.
Same here!! Amazing channel :)
I’m the same! That two note call always reminded of my childhood and it’s been driving me mad as I hear them all the time! So nice to know it was a lovely little Great Tit. This is a great video. 😊
They call that the "Teacher teacher teacher" call
Me too! Finally nailed the little chap singing in the trees by my house - it's taken ages to work this out!
A fantastic video! For the last five years I have had a few pairs nesting in my back garden. The mating call has been going on now for the last two weeks as well as exploration of the numerous bird boxes dotted around the garden. This vid gives an excellent explanation of those calls I hear all the time! Thanks.
Absolutely brilliant resource. Well done.
At last! You have identified for me the sawing song that wakes me in the morning. Thank you!
It wakes me at 3 AM since mid March and it lasts for hours...
Your videos are really very interesting and helpful in identifying different birds. Your meticulous recordings are such a wonderful resource. Thankyou.
I’ve been woken by these calls each spring for the past couple of years, but just this morning caught sight of a great tit at the same time. It won’t make me any less grumpy at 5am tomorrow, but it’s good to finally know who to blame!! (and to have identified another visitor to the trees behind my flat.)
Brilliant ;expertly explained and made do simple to remember
Most instructing and brilliantly done.ThankYou
So interesting and helpful - and such a lovely voice. Thank you!
Excellent footage Maurice, your skill, knowledge and patience make these videos a must for all those interested in wildlife...... Thanks for posting...... Thumbs up from me....... ATB Ian
What an amazing video. Thank you very much.
'Owns' the trees by the river Mole near us. Beautiful
Very interesting and informative video - and well-edited too!
Oh thank you so much. That is amazing and beautifully explained.
Your visualizations are fantastict! This is indeed so helpful for visualization. Thank you for making these.
A great video. Now I know who the sounds are coming from. Thanks.
I hear this song today and it was so clear .Thank you for explaining what it was
Wow, I haven't noticed they can "scare away" sparrows with a high pitch, that's really interesting
Dont know what it is but I love this first sound. I love to hear in the summer.
Thank you for that! What an excellent video! I've been hearing the one at 3:24 for the last few days and couldn't figure out what it was. Then managed to spot that it was some kind of tit today so this really helped me nail it down as most websites just give the most common call and don't go into so much detail.
Very informative and well produced. Thanks for your superb effort
Wonderful footage & info!
Fantastic share Maurice... thank you!
Thank you for watching and for you kind comments.
Such a helpful and lovely video, thanks Mr. Baker👍🏼😊
Wren, look at bird bath
Thank you so much, it’s been bugging me for weeks to find out which bird was singing such song
This is just amazing, thanks so much, I have been into recording birds since I was 12 but ID is always hard. Have subbed
Teacher, teacher, very apt as you have taught me a few things. I loved the false alarm calls, I have often wondered if our British birds use a shared communication. Great video as always. Steve.
Thank you Steve, your comments are much appreciated.
Brilliant, thank you.
This helped me greatly.
I was wondering why a one legged great tit was making alarm calls every time it ate at the bird feeder.
Thank you!
Not sure why I chuckled, but this made me chuckle.
Enjoyed this very much Maurice. I need to get better at recognizing my own local birds' calls.
Thanks so much for your comments. Since I started taking more notice of bird songs and calls it's surprising just how much more I have seen that I probably wouldn't have even noticed before.
Thanks so much. I have been wondering which bird was making this row every morning!! Fabulous video and I love them feeding from your hand. Lucky you!
Merial Best, look at bird bath
thanks for all of your kindly description ❤
Wonderful, thank you.
I have heard all these songs in my garden but I've never realized they all belong to the great tit. Incredible video
Yes they have a fantastic vocabulary, there is a saying that if your hear a bird in the garden and you don't recognise the sound it is most likely to be a Great Tit.
This is so helpful. Thank you.
This is so helpful. thank you so much!
The song that signals spring is here
A really wonderful sound Maurice! I love it!
Thank you Annemieke for your kind comments.
VERY useful video thank you.
What a great video!
you have my heart my good friend 🐦
Thank you Mike for your kind comment.
Wow your verified
Amazing video !
4:13 what about the fledglings in the background, aren't they making a "feed me" call? Maybe it's in response to that?
I have been hearing this two-note call at night/early hours in July & this video helped ID. I was wondering why the Great Tit would call at night, light pollution disturbing it's biorhythm as we live in London?
Thumbs up Maurice, I saw the Indian Great Tit a number of times in my premises & wanted to ask for ID ,so I first recorded how it approached my veranda & garden swiftly & quickly flew ,then I forwarded the video to India Birds Video, who provided their ID, but you have gone minutely through there song sequences & notes. I think the Indian Great Tit has more back on its underside not a greenish colour Also it's great to see how they approach you so closely to peck on those gourmet worms ,one even sitting on your hand you are really have worked hard to be able developed a trust in them to do so.
Anuradha Inamdar, look at bird bath
you have just helped me identify my first great tit! thank you for making this video. happy bird spotting! :)
Wonderfully made, thanks so much. It has a call in there (at 3:00 minutes) which is exactly like the one I hear in my neighbourhood but wasn't able to find online anywhere else. Thanks again, I learned a lot from this video!
Thank you! I’m working on a Great Tit vocalisation classifier project
Those calls are banging mush!
Stuart Ravey, look at bird bath
Amazing job well done
vegyess, look at bird bath
These lovely birds love to eat the processional caterpillars in the pine tree on my neighbour's finca. Someone has to.
That churring call sounds a bit like a House Sparrow!
Very helpful and interesting video.
th new joy of having a family of 7 the babies are learning from their parents to eat from the bird balls i have put on easy to accede support . An Enchantment, I 've Put fresh water every day but do not think they touch it for drinking or bathing
Thanks Sonia, yes it is always a joy to watch the young ones. Keep on putting out the water as I an sure that they will soon start to use it and you will be able to watch them drinking and bathing.
Or the noise of squeaky swings.
They hang about in the birch trees behind my mum's house. They are relatively easy to spot, as their black head stands out against the white bark. Their song is very loud and insistent. Reminds me of the robin in that the Great Tit is quite territorial and likes to make its mark.
Nice video. Great that you have them eating out of your hand.
Many thanks, I get a lot of pleasure from their visits, but this usually only happens each year when they have young ones to feed.
Very nice video
Today I heard the seldom call at 3:57 it was after a magpie probably ate one of their chicks. Is it possible they seek for their child with specifically this call?
Very nice- taking worms from hand :)
Wonderful!
Fantastic
very nice video , there is many of them in Jordan , but how you teach them to come to you without scaring them?
Thank you Moeen. It takes a lot of patience, and live mealworms, to get to the stage where they trust you enough to feed from your hand, and they usually only do this when they have young ones to feed.
ok but birds are flying away from me , even if i want to watch should i go daily to watch them? and how i can make them trust me without flying away?
What a fantastic channel. I have a question. I heard a group of birds in my garden this morning calling to each other in turn. The sound was like little bells ringing. One was near my window, (bird 1) he'd do a short tinkling bell sound, like a teeny-weeny Christmas bell, then bird 2 (somewhere else in my garden) would do the same, then bird 3, then 4. This circle of little bells repeated about 5 times before they all flew off. It was almost like they were doing a head count on a school trip. So sweet. Do you think they were blue tits?
I have a bird that constantly sings 1 longer and 2 shorter lower pitched tweets repeatedly. I can never see it and would love to know what it is.
I think the great tit does something similar but it's 2 higher pitched and a lower pitched tweet.
Thanks a lot
Has anyone tried to analyse bird calls in terms of music intervals? To me, the classic great tit 'teacher teacher' sounds like a descending perfect fourth. Is this right?
Henry Rich, look at bird bath
A great tit's nest is just right above my window, it wakes me up every fucking morning I hate the bird!
There's a bird in our garden that makes a 'tink, tink, tink' sound like a fingernail tapping on glass. Any ideas ?
barbara wood, look at bird bath
ME ENCANTA!! GRACIAS!! 🥰
Sofia Celeste, look at bird bath
Maurice. Thankyou
What a staggeringly vast repertoire the great tit has 🐦
great work here!
Thank You Gila for your comment and sub.
Thank you Gila for commenting.
Great, thanks!
is that your hand Maurice.
Yes, I set the video camera on a tripod and let it run.
how wonderful
Keep strong. Dont forget that despite the struggles and madness in this world today, God is full of justice, mercy and love.
Justice said we broke His perfect law - causing the world's previous perfection to be
destroyed - and therefore we deserve Hell (like a punishment in any legal system but this is eternal as His perfect law is eternal too). Don't think you fit in that category? Ever done one of these?: lying, stealing - regardless of how small the object EVER, hating others - which is murder in God's perfect law, lusting (plus God sees our entire thought life). Justice says "the soul that sins shall die" - if we break one in thought/word/deed it's as if we're guilty of all of them. Quite simply, living by the law (which is doing everything perfectly) is impossible for sinful humans
. The law shows us that 1. We will die in Hell if we fail to follow it and 2. We cannot save ourselves BUT, 3. God's perfect, immovable law points us to Christ, who followed and fulfilled the law in thought, word and deed perfectly in our place. He did what we couldn't and did it on our behalf. He was then sentenced to death on a cross, and took our personal punishment for our sin, paying our penalty (like paying our fine) completely FOR us, and has given us freedom.
If we turn from the sins we have committed and repent (pursue the opposite direction of love through Christ) He will, overtime, recreate us back into that previously perfect image through The Holy Spirit which Jesus sends to all who accept Him as their personal Lord and Savior of their life. He will help us through the struggle, the stress, and anything we experience in the world. It's about letting Christ in to guide and teach you and obeying Him through His power (not ourselves, we need Him to help us as it's impossible without depending on His power and instruction).
He is our substitute in His life, death and resurrection. He essentially rewrote history in our place so that, if you believe in Him, it will be as if you had never sinned if you accept Christ's death as our own in our place.
He is in Heaven right now preparing a place for us so that He can take His faithful, believing children home with Him when He returns. He will ressurrect us from death when He returns, giving mercy to those who accept His love, instruction and teachings in their life, and give justice to those who refuse it.
He doesn't want ANY of us to go to Hell and die for continuing in evil and rejecting His way to life, thats why He died FOR us. Hes giving EVERYONE a chance, He wants everyone to take the free gift of salvation from Hell. He wants us to be His and begin to follow His life of love and service through His power and abiding (staying) with Him. So long as we keep our hearts near to Christ through His strength, strive to follow His will of perfect love revealed in the Bible, and let Him lead in the midst of (very certain) pitfalls and struggles, we will, in time, win the ultimate victory over sin, pain and DEATH through Christ. Even if you are willing to be made willing, pray for Jesus to come in and He will do what we can't. Give us The Holy Spirit who will guide us in the right way.
Christ says in John 16:33: I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace. In the world you have tribulation and distress and suffering, but be courageous [be confident, be undaunted, be filled with joy]; I have overcome the world.” [My conquest is accomplished, My victory abiding.]
- (AMPLIFIED version)
NOTE: You are NEVER too sinful or messed up that God cannot turn your life around through Jesus. EVER. Regardless of what you've done or what you're going through you CAN make it through Jesus.
Xx
BearvilleBear, look at bird bath
I can’t find my male tit calls anywhere he’s only started doing it this month breeding season it’s 4 syllables first is high then 3 lows I’ve been trying to record it in vain he only does it when he comes to eat on the feeder sometimes
Yma, look at bird bath
I love this video!! ❤️
Does anybody knows the reason for such a funny name of this bird?
I believe it's an old english word for something small. Unrelated to the slang term for breasts which derives from the word teat.
Look at bird bath
🦋😇
Ah so this is what sits outside my window making a racket every day 😅
Racket? They sound beautiful
@@coffeduck9014 Not when you've got a migraine or you're trying to sleep, they don't.
Thanks for sharing, I'm fostering a great tit fledgling and using this to teach him the songs of his people ☺
Gemma Morgan, look at bird bath
❤❤❤🪷👍🙏
Thank you so much 🌻
"teacher, teacher teacher......"
I have recorded a birdsong which could well be a great tit, but it's not any of the so songs you play. Can I send a recording to you?
Yes Jon, if you send me a copy to maurice@mbaker.co.uk I will check it out for you. Maurice
My morning alarm clock...
They remind me of a magpie's chatter
I just found a baby of this birds he can’t fly yet so im hand feeding him until he gets bigger as no sign of mum or dad they are so cute and he already accepting food from me and he loves standing on my hand
Ag d tumpain go gleasta
Cool bird, names kinda unfortunate
Sorry I don't want to be mr bird expert or whatever but I think 4:06 is a call of the Chaffinch.
Still love your channel though!
I must admit it is very similar to the pinking call or the chaffinch, I still think that it may be the great tit. The chaffinch is usually just a two syllable phrase and this is a three syllable phrase with the first syllable being a quieter high pitched note. Thanks for the comment, I will look a bit further into this though.
Not sure but could you please compare the great tit call to this video @th-cam.com/video/MiIkkNU4e_I/w-d-xo.html
I know what theyre saying
10👍🐦
Thank you Abdou for watching and commenting.
AWW FK YEAH, HOTDOGS
Jim Carry had it wrong in the movie Dumb & Dumber, the most annoying sound in the world goes to this tiny little cute bird, i have heard car alarms that are more melodic than this noisy little thing. :/
yea its cute until it lives in your garden and wont stop making that bloody noise
Something has woke me at 6am for the last few weeks & I've finally found out what it was thanks to this video. 😊
So we're just going to ignore that this bird's name is great tit?
My least favourite bird, so annoying and like a persistent alarm!
You are sad
Now my wife knows which bird makes the sound she calls 'Takeshi's Castle' 😂 It reminds her of the calls made in the show just before the contestants were pushed down the water slide in wooden bowls 😂
th-cam.com/video/IIDAlupKY34/w-d-xo.html