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Which birds are singing in your garden this week? (1 Viewer)
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joannechattaway said:
Dunnocks are starting up in the place where I walk everyday. When they get going each one is like a momentary little snatch of skylark.
When I go out about 1-2 hrs before sunrise, there are currently 5 robins singing close to street lamps in the first 200 yards of my walk - after that I'm away from buildings and into fields with some willow and thorn scrub. Out there all is quiet until the crows start their "crowing" about an hour before sunrise, followed a little later by the blackbirds - either pinking or their alarm clatter, and the first robin song. About the same time magpies start chattering quietly, and wrens start their clicking. Nothing else really sings until full daylight. Last weekend during the daytime there was a considerable amount of song from great tits, and some from blue tits. Nuthatches have been very noisy too - but I'm not sure how much of that counts as song and how much as contact/alarm calls.
deborah4
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Nothing seems to be really singing yet - lots of chatter from the starlings, a cacophany of screeching from the gulls, chirping and tweeting from the finches and tits, annoying cooing from the collar doves and wood pigeons, lots of alarming from the blackbirds, a few croaks from the jays and crows and about 2 or 3 bars of tune from the robin with the occassional ringing call from the wren.
But 'singing'? Hmm... Roll on Spring, roll on the Dawn Chorus!
Joanna - Ive just noticed you're from Sussex too - maybe your garden is warmer than mine!
But 'singing'? Hmm... Roll on Spring, roll on the Dawn Chorus!
Joanna - Ive just noticed you're from Sussex too - maybe your garden is warmer than mine!
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joannec
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When I first posted this I did refer to SINGING, not chirping and alarm calls. Sorry for any confusion. Our blackbirds are doing plenty of alarm calls as are wrens, finches, rooks and lots of others. Also today I notice collared doves cooing. I don't think it's annoying, it sounds to me that are really contented, Deborah. (I think Chichester must be warmer than here between Uckfield and Lewes) Each day that passes, I hear more from the robins and great tits, robins almost non stop. Kttrush. I think your titmice may be similar to our tits and maybe get going early.
Joanne
Joanne
Woodchatshrike
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Mit thrush in full song on the first Jan in Gloucestershire. They genrally sing quite early anyway otherwise I think all the birds have given up in Scotland because of the duff weather. A spring chorus seems a long way off at the moment.
Woodchatshrike
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I did hear a Wood pigeon the other day. They may well be on eggs already.
London Birder
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no garden, but locally singing this week (even during the gloomy conditions): Stock Dove, Woodpigeon, Dunnock, Robin, Blackbird, Mistle Thrush, Goldcrest, Coal, Blue and Great Tit, Treecreeper and Goldfinch.
Birdspotter
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Had a male Blackbird singing full throttle on 1st Jan, there has also been several others reported singing elsewhere around the same time.
joannechattaway said:
Sorry for any confusion too - I mentioned the early morning sounds with the intention that it would be clear that some of these were not courtship/territory song, and relied on the use of the words "singing" and "song" to indicate courtship/territory singing. I hoped it was clear that only robins were "singing" before dawn and that others - tits etc were "singing" later in full daylight.
Andy Wilson
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Blackbird at full volume Tuesday morning (10 Jan) at 6 a.m. It was cold, wet and windy.
Glenn McColl
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Song Thrush has been going at it full throttle every morning this week from about 7am.Also has Great Tit and Dunnock and Robin.
There's a Blackbird singing at the moment.
Had a Cetti's singing (if you can call it that) at Upton Fen on the 2nd and out walking yesterday a Greenfinch was doing his best,but sounded a bit rusty.
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Glenn
There's a Blackbird singing at the moment.
Had a Cetti's singing (if you can call it that) at Upton Fen on the 2nd and out walking yesterday a Greenfinch was doing his best,but sounded a bit rusty.
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Chris D
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Anna's Humminbirds are doing their mating display right now. They're my winter resident and will breed very soon. They're also very vocal (the males) but seem to be year round. It's been a rainy month in Northern California so many species of waterfowl - including tundra swans are flying constantly over my home and calling. There's so much flooded habitat that flocks seem always stirred up and on the move.
Katy Penland
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The American Robins and House Finches are all singing, which just sounds so weird when the temps are well below freezing in the morning. Occasionally, the Mountain Chickadee will break into its lovely warbling song, as does the Townsend's Solitaire, but it's mostly the robin's and finch's songs accompanying the scarfing hordes at the feeders.
joannec
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Well, it's a month since this thread was started so there must be alot more species singing now. Blue tits, black birds and song thrushes are added to my garden list of current singers. Pied wagtails are pairing up I notice but haven't heard them singing yet. Anyone got any more?
