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Last night and this morning three of us tried furiously to get a look at a bird delivering an extremely unusual song, knowing there was nothing quite like it amongst the commoner European fauna. For a while at least, we harboured fanciful visions that we might have some sort of decent find (or an escape!), on our hands. After hours of searching a dense and undistinguished sycamore copse W of Elkington in the Wolds, it turned out to be a common or garden Chaffinch.
The bird sounds nothing like a normal chaffinch, instead sounding slightly like a thinner, sweeter and speeded-up yellowhammer without the final flourish - quite unlike anything we'd ever heard before. The song was consistent and repeated many times. I know its just a Chaffinch, but if anyone is interested in the locality please do say.
Bill
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