birdsong at 3am in England ? (1 Viewer)

[bonalba]

Can anyone tell me which birds are the most lightly to be responsible for singing during the cold January night! We have nightingales in May but this is new to us.
Thankyou,
Bonalba

 

[Keith Reeder]

Blackbirds and robins are very easily persuaded by street lighting that dawn has arrived, and sing as a result.

Other thrushes probably do it too, but it's usually these two that I hear in the dead of night...

 

[Bubbs]

Blackbirds and robins are very easily persuaded by street lighting that dawn has arrived, and sing as a result.

Other thrushes probably do it too, but it's usually these two that I hear in the dead of night...

Mistle Thrushes sing from October - May in York city centre...it's the lights that probably encourage the singing!

John.

 

[The Raptor]

I'm a Postman up early at 4am & it is the robins that I hear first & then later the blackbirds. They sing in areas that are lit up.

Rod.

 

[markpie]

Yeah, most likely robins. I quite like hearing them sing in the early hours, makes it a bit mysterious. As well as nightingales in summer.

 

[rlchew]

There is a Song Thrush close to where I live which is currently singing most of the day and during the night. I wonder when it sleeps!

Richard

 

[abagguley]

We have a robin (seemingly) singing all night long around here - I've not noticed him doing it so much in the summer, though.

Adrian

 

[jpoyner]

For my sins I was working night shifts recently. Was sitting watching a Robin feeding on a spotlit lawn at 2am as if it were the middle of the day!
Can only think that in winter it is the effect of artifical light on the birds body clock.
True that most of the birds I have come across singing seem to be under a bright street lamp. I have never heard one here at home where it is pitch black at night, yet there are plenty of Robins.

John

 

[willowa]

For my sins I was working night shifts recently. Was sitting watching a Robin feeding on a spotlit lawn at 2am as if it were the middle of the day!
Can only think that in winter it is the effect of artifical light on the birds body clock.
True that most of the birds I have come across singing seem to be under a bright street lamp. I have never heard one here at home where it is pitch black at night, yet there are plenty of Robins.

John

Street lamps and other light pollution cant be good.

 

[Bubbs]

My friend - a keen gardener - has Nightingales singing in his garden in North Yorkshire every spring!!!!!

No amount of "it's a Robin" would disuade him away from "It's a Nightingale". It was only when I presented him with a Robin recording that he admitted defeat.

And a Nightingale sang in Berkeley Square :t:

John.