There's this bird..........

Blackbirds tend to sing a lot at this time of year - very tunefully, too! We have a street light at the front of our house, and sometimes if I go to the loo in the middle of the night I can hear a blackbird singing away, obviously misled about the time by the light of the lamp!

I keep hearing a blackbird, which perches on the same high branch each evening at dusk, and goes through a tuneful repertoire. Really enjoyable

I'm pretty sure that this isn't a blackbird. That is one of the few that I do recognise.

Can you see it. Perhaps a little description?

Probably a robin.

Thrush?

Nightingale?

Robins are singing at this time of year too and often are mistaken for nightingales as they sing by the light of streetlights.They have a very sweet song. Could it be that phoenix?

I've already suggested that Gagagran. But don't mind me.

Oh sorry jings didn't spot that. Just trying to help!

It is a bit disconcerting when a post that you know wasn't there when yours was registered is there when you look again....

Couldn't see the bird, and it's totally dark now, no singing.

So do dunnocks. I have a couple of aps on my iPad that play the songs of each species.
My wren and robin are noisy little so and sos as well!

Isn't it wonderful to have the birdsong back!

One of our pied wagtails has returned - he is hopping about on our balcony rail outside the bedroom, singing his heart out in his quest for a mate. I am assuming he is the same one - I wonder if his mate will be the same.

They were a joy last year bobbing about as we sat in bed with our morning tea - so happy to have them back!

I'm sure I saw on the RSPB website that they have short audio's of lots of different birdsongs , you could listen and maybe identify the bird.

Thanks for the tip Galen. I've just downloaded a free birdsong app. Much easier to use than the CD and accompanying notes from RSPB.

Thanks tanith will give that a go tomorrow.

A woodpecker flew onto the trunk of the bird cherry tree a few days ago. It's plummage was brilliant. It appeared much larger than I imagined it would be.

I have a very irate dunnock on my feeder. It's empty and will have to wait for Gary to fill it on Monday. I'm not sure if Gary forgot to fill it on Friday or wether the pigeon who does contortions to get at the dangling feeders has emptied it?

just the one pigeon. I counted 10 of the blighters on and around our feeding station last week. I wish I could send them to some other garden

No I've got loads, but only one, so far has learned the trick!

Every time I go outside at the moment I seem to here a woodpecker drilling in some tree up the hill. The eider ducks on the loch have started chatting again too (they're quiet over the winter). And the squatter sparrows who are love in the house-martin nests under the eaves go CHEEP CHEEP CHEEP all day long. And always a background chorus from dunnocks and long-tailed tits and great tits, etc. The heron just visits to eat frogs and says nothing.

Meanwhile the number of bank vole holes in what we call the lawn (cough) is astonishing. This may encourage the owls (tawny, little, and barn)

hear not here

live not love

Robin sings when dark, too early for Nightingales in March. Robins have a lovely sub song and a very lovely song.