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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Apodemus" data-source="post: 1699474" data-attributes="member: 4078">Hello Dram7I'm sorry if my earlier posts came across as too negative. The problem is that I come from a science background, and have an automatic distrust of easy answers and of claims that this (anything) is THE answer, and that anyone who doesn't see it is just wrong.  Science works by the generation and testing of theories - those that are the most robust last the longest, while other weaker ones are displaced by those that fit the observations better.  Simply coming on to a birding website and telling everyone that you have a very simple answer to a complex question can be seen as quite arrogant, and I'm afraid that this is how you appeared to me. Of course, I don't know anything about you other than your posts here, so my assessment could easily be totally misfounded.I wonder what reading you have done to test your theory. Are you aware of studies done on captive and wild bird populations that show how the dawn chorus is brought forward by increasing artificial light levels? Your changeover theory will have to account for this if it is to be more widely accepted. RegardsMike</blockquote>