Birdsong

[jb190281]

I haven't got a clue about birds, nature, anything like that, so please excuse me if I appear stupid/ignorant/or anything else!

I didn't think birds generally sang at night, but I've noticed in the last few weeks, at around 12/1am, there's quite a bit of birdsong going on in the gardens around my house. It goes on for a while, stops, and then starts again 2ish.

Do all birds sing at night, or is this likely to be some species in particular?

[NazNomad]

http://www.rspb.org.u...ur/nocturnalsong.aspx

[NazNomad]

Soz, meant to add this ... (from the link)

Robins can be easily triggered into full song by a streetlight or any kind of floodlighting. Since robins keep territories all year round, they also sing all round the year. This has resulted in dozens of reports of nightingales singing in the middle of the winters night and other equally unlikely times and places, which have all turned out to be robins. In fact, the robin is the most common night-time songster in Britain's towns and gardens.

[boxtops]

I've heard that too jb, unlikely to be a nightingale in this neck of the woods, so I've assumed it's a thrush disturbed by the security lighting nearby.

[jb190281]

That's very interesting, thank you both. It's quite a nice sound, maybe a bit lively but pleasant all the same.

[boxtops]

My cats eat robins, naz, I don't think it's one of them.

[slinkycat]

I looked into this a couple of years ago, I too was amazed to hear a bird in full song late at night and in the early hours of the morning.
We have an oak at the front of the house, also a street lamp and I'm pretty sure that it's a robin trilling away out there.
He's been there a few nights now this winter (although not tonight) its lovely to hear:-)

[rowanwitch]

blackbirds do this a lot too especially towards the end of winter

[pastafreak]

Funny....I too noticed a fair amount of birdsong several nights last week when I took the dog out for her last wee. It was quite tuneful....very nice to hear at that hour.

[rowanwitch]

The downside of this is the birds waste energy singing when they should be roosting.. another example of how we have affected nature for our own needs

[Old_Geezer]

They should opt to move into the country where we folks can't afford property :-)

[redman41]

Birds living in Towns and Cities cough rather than sing due to pollution ;-)
Cannot beat a healthy Bird Song day or night !

[carlton23]

My new avatar shows my bird which loves to chirp in the evenings whilst my O/H and I watch TV,especially when watching any show with birdsong in the background, then she really let`s us know.