Mystery birdsong resembling human tune

[omblod]

Due to the recent good weather I've spent a lot of time in the garden and have heard birdsong that resembles the opening notes of the tune known, (at least by humans!) as 'Camptown Races'. Does anyone know what the musical bird in question is? (BTW, I live in Belfast - information twitchers are sure to want to know.)

[Cetti]

One of the best mimic in the bird world is the Starling. They can imitate a wide range of sounds - mobile ring tones to farmyard chickens, so this is a possible. Blackbirds aren't bad either..... I would love to hear this rendition of Camptown Races as it sounds amazing!

[apricot]

Are you sure it wasn't indiesinger in your garden? He's been in mine shouting Wob, Wob.

[IndieSinger]

I was going to post a message saying "Wob wob" but I wasn't sure how many people that would get the joke would read this thread!






_{Wob wob...}

[MikeMikeMike]

I had a starling, which 'lived' near my house, who I noticed was gradually learning my ringtone a couple of notes at a time. it was startlingly [?starlingly?] accurate, since I initially noticed it when I kept checking my phone in the garden for no reason. It got about half way through. Then disappeared. My cat's had a smug grin on his face ever since. Obviously it's not just humans that hate mobile ringtones.

[bernardo]

Can you explain the wob wob joke?

[Kit]

Blackbirds are also pretty good. We had one which used to sing the first few bars of the Star Spangled Banner, with a squeak at the end - kind of "Oh say can you EEK!"