I keep hearing a bird nearby that sounds like a squeak, the kind of sound a squeaky wheelbarrow or a swing makes. Any ideas please?
It is a blackbird, a male. I caught it out when I was in the garden this morning, he was sitting in the tree making a perfect 'sqeeeeeak' sound until he spotted me hanging out the washing at which point he gave his alarm call and flew off.
Glad you caught him Wickenwoman :-)
By rights(or nursery rhyme),it should have pecked off your nose first-Wickenwoman. :-)