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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sancho" data-source="post: 1170154" data-attributes="member: 27039"><p>Good luck with it, SPF. I find it a never-ending process, and am amazed by some birders in the field who can identify a species of finch flying way overheard simply from some faint "chirp". I have to re-learn a lot every spring. Ideally in the field, as others advised, but the Doherty and Sample DVDs are superb, and I prefer to see the bird on screen as I hear the song. I think over 80% of the birdsong you´re likely to hear is coming from 12 or so species, so if you get the common ones off pat, you´ll at least know when you´re listening to something different. Sorry I can´t add anything earth-shattering to the excellent advice already given...if it makes you feel any better, I´ve spent the last three years (well, springtime anyway) listening again and again to Blackcap v. Garden Warbler songs on CDs, etc., and still can´t distinguish them in "blind" tests.</p></blockquote><p></p>