Birds singing

[martint235]

Ok what's the deal with the birds singing outside my window in the early hours? I know, I know, we should stop selling them cheap cider! !

No seriously, 2am this morning the flipping dawn chorus kicked off and then never stopped. I know it's mild for November but surely they realise it's still dark!!!

 

[Fnaar]

Have they just flown in from Russia, or somewhere east, and are still not used to the time change?

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

It used to puzzle me why blackbirds sing so melodiously on mild wet nights. I came up with the theory that they were like young children unable to sleep on Christmas Eve. They know that the soft wet soil will bring nice juicy worms to the surface for breakfast.

Of course this theory may have no grounding in fact but I don't really care because I like the idea.

 

[ianrauk]

I like that idea DM and I think it rings true. As my lawn looks like it has the worm version of the Battle Of the Somme at the moment...

 

[martint235]

I just want them to do it quietly!!! It's the middle of the night!!

 

[Aperitif]

I just want them to do it quietly!!! It's the middle of the night!!

They're 'armless BigMat - just like your cycling tops. (And this is the posh South - not Liverpool...it'll be a bottle or two of WKD I expect )

 

[Globalti]

It's probably a nightingale. Sounds like a thrush or a blackbird, you should be able to see it up in a tree, brown colour and looks like a female blackbird. Bloody loud.

Here: http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/n/nightingale/index.aspx

 

[martint235]

It's probably a nightingale. Sounds like a thrush or a blackbird, you should be able to see it up in a tree, brown colour and looks like a female blackbird. Bloody loud.

Here: http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/n/nightingale/index.aspx

Errmmm, it's dark how on earth am I meant to see it???

 

[ianrauk]

Errmmm, it's dark how on earth am I meant to see it???

A Hope Vision 1

 

[martint235]

A Hope Vision 1

With a shotgun slung underneath it!!!

 

[Mr Phoebus]

I just want them to do it quietly!!! It's the middle of the night!!

They're carol singers. Tis the season and all that.

 

[theclaud]

Nice pic Reivers. The gorse often flowers twice round here as well.

The nocturnal song is probably a Robin. Luckily their song is beautiful at any time. It doesn't take much at dawn to get them going, and they sing into the dusk anyway, so other light sources can set them off, as can disturbances of some kind.

 

[Night Train]

Aren't birds singing at that time their way of getting heard above the noise people make in the morning?

 

[biggs682]

its lpvelly riding in recentley just to hear the birds tweeting , long may it continue

 

[Glow worm]

Like TC I reckon it might be a robin as well. Last winter there was a part of a ridiculously over-lit cycle path in Cambridge where I'd often hear a robin singing well after dusk. I guess the light pollution confuses them. Luckily there's none of that here- nice and dark.