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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gill Osborne" data-source="post: 1166047" data-attributes="member: 143965">I used to be hopeless at bird song when I first started - even manged to confuse a Blue Tit singing outside with a Robin :-O    But then I went on a Dawn Chorus Walk in Jesmond Dene, organised by my local Wildlife Trust.  Seeing the birds actually singing in front of me helped enormously and from then on I just concentrated on always seeing the bird when I heard any new songs and slowly, very slowly LOL, over the years I've picked them up :t:  It's just a case of practice, practice, practice really - though I did find using a bird song cd helped with a few species.  If I hadn't listened to the sound of Raven's cronking on Geoff Sample's cd I would probably have missed that species in the Lake District last year.  It was their call which alerted me to them on a cliff face :t:    Why not get in touch with your local wildlife trust/bird club?  I'm sure they'll have Dawn Chorus Walks organised for early May that are well worth attending.</blockquote>