12:15 am bird singing in tree opp. my house

[hedge-ender]

Would I be correct in thinking that a bird I heard singing just now could be a mistle thrush? very melodic, not a song thrush. The weeping silver birch tree it's in has a street light on, right next to it - 12:15am.
Jools

[robert burgess]

Would I be correct in thinking that a bird I heard singing just now could be a mistle thrush? very melodic, not a song thrush. The weeping silver birch tree it's in has a street light on, right next to it - 12:15am.
Jools



i should think you are right,i live on a main road with a street lamp 30 yards from my window under a birch tree and often hear mistle thrush after dark,although i haven't actually heard one for a couple of months!

[jpoyner]

Are you sure it's not a Robin ? A regular night singer especially under artificial light. Must say have never heard a Mistle Thrush singing at night, also seems a bit early.

JP

[showaddy]

Are you sure it's not a Robin ? A regular night singer especially under artificial light. Must say have never heard a Mistle Thrush singing at night, also seems a bit early.

JP

We have plenty of thrushes singing under street lights here, just in the past week, as well as robins since new year - (I'm nearer to Bath than to Strathspey).

How well up are you on bird song? - it'll be easy enough to tell a robin from a thrush once you know.

[hedge-ender]

We have plenty of thrushes singing under street lights here, just in the past week, as well as robins since new year - (I'm nearer to Bath than to Strathspey).

How well up are you on bird song? - it'll be easy enough to tell a robin from a thrush once you know.
Well, I've just visited the rspb site and listened to the songs of both mistle thrush and robin - and it would more likely be the robin. Thanx for help.
Jools

[Woody]

Well, I've just visited the rspb site and listened to the songs of both mistle thrush and robin - and it would more likely be the robin. Thanx for help.
Jools
The robins are getting pretty vocal around here (Kent) too. I'm up well before daylight and have been hearing more and more robins over the past week or so. This morning they had been joined by a couple of blackbirds and the local tawny owls have started to make their presence known too.

Woody

[dendroica_john]

I have been hearing American robins singing also. I can usually hear them late at night in the spring - midnight and after.

[Osprey_watcher]

Robin is my guess.
I have one that regularly wakes me up in the night singing outside (I have a street lamp outside my house).

[Mary Evelyn]

Hi All,

2 birds here and that's the Robin and the Blackbird.

[kas]

Robin was the first tick of the year for me, as I saw one in the early hours of the morning singing away.
Must admit it was the first time I have heard this.