Day 11 in #TwitterBirdsong-land, and if you're still going, give yourself a pat on the back. https://twitter.com/LevParikian/status/1348206770930528262

Some birds are nice. Some birds are helpful. Some birds restrict their output to one or maybe two sounds.

The nuthatch, much as I love the pastel-shaded bandit-masked little perk-bundle, is not one of those birds.

Here’s one of the sounds the nuthatch makes. https://xeno-canto.org/235146  #TwitterBirdsong

Here’s another: https://xeno-canto.org/458397  #TwitterBirdsong

And here’s another: https://xeno-canto.org/455199  #TwitterBirdsong

And here, for good measure, are a few more:

https://xeno-canto.org/454688  https://xeno-canto.org/448639 

YOU GET THE IDEA.

I am, ever so slightly, overdramatising the situation - you’re not going to confuse a nuthatch with a song thrush, say, or a robin. But the variety of nuthatch songs and calls does give an idea of what we’re up against.

Go for a walk in your local wood, especially a bit later in the year, and especially in the morning, and you'll hear a nuthatch, likely as not*.

*Not in Ireland or a lot of Scotland, though. Terms and conditions apply.