Hi Chris,
This may not be very helpful towards solving your mystery as I don't
know a thing about Linnets and very little about birds outside my
neighborhood, but to me your bird sounds kind of like a chickadee.
Could it be a Boreal Chickadee? The sound sample at Cornell has a very
similar pattern.
http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Boreal_Chickadee.html
Your bird sounds more relaxed less raspy and than the chickadee though.
Very fine recording by the way - gives a nice sense of place.
John Hartog
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> Can anyone help me with this ? Recorded at 1800m in the Swiss alps,
> right at the tree line. There is a chaffinch and a goldcrest alongside -
> but the mystery is the thing that goes "tsip-tsip-cheeer-cheeer" (and
> seems to stimulate the chaffinch)quite distinctive and regular - but
> invisible at the time ! Sorry for the background noise but I was near
> a cliff with a large torrent river echoing from below. Could this be a
> linnet ?
>
> http://cjhails.googlepages.com/unknownaxalp
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> Thanks for any help.
>
> Chris
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