Does any one have any particular favourite sounds of spring? Mine is bird song! One bird in particular always reminds me of a crazy English summer day and that is the Blackbird. The flutey song sounds best on a warm spring and summer’s day, before the sun sets!
Blackbirds are Thrushes and very common in gardens, parks, farmland, woodlands of Europe. It is also found in the far North of Pakistan.
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I love Robin's song....and I recognize this sound well. Oh and also bluetits. I've heard blackbirds can copy few sounds, I don't know if it's true.
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The Robin’s song reminds me of winter simply because they are one of the few birds that sing throughout the year. They do this as they are territorial and song marks a territory. They are very aggressive in the defence of their territory and many Robin’s die because of being attacked by other Robin’s. That is the dark side of the Robin and thats is why quite often you see them alone.
For those who want to listen to a Robin song click:-
and under the green line on the far left click the play button
and here is a youtube link with Robin song
The Blue Tit also sounds lovely :-
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Another sound of Spring has to be the Song Thrush - what a belter this bird in the youtube click is :-
Once again the play button is uner the green line o the far left.
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Yes they are starting to annoy me already, time to get the pellet gun from the loft methinks.
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I have never heard or seen this bird but it has an amazing song!
The youtube link is absolutely captivating!
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a day out in the countryside, farmland, coastal areas and you hear this…a Skylark..on a sunny day!
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I thought bulbul was nightingale, this bird looks very different to bulbul.
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Nightingales and Bulbuls I believe belong to a same branch. There are over 20 species of Bulbuls.
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One of my greatest Spring memories was walkign around Thetford Forest in Norfolk after10pm tryign to locate a Nightjar. I was unsuccessful but i hear a few. The call is very eerie!
Click the link below and you will see a thick green band with Nightjar on the left handside. Under that there is a play button and click it
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^wow...how very unusual sound for a bird!
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It is super duper. You will have Nightjar's at many areas in the South and if you want to listen to them the best time is to go out an hour before sunset and they will call over plantations, heathland, scrub, marshes.......it is very eerie!
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One of my favourite bird calls has to be this one which sings its own name!
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A song often heard on the moors, sounds the best when it is sunny and warm and comes out of nowhere!
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On the dunes at Southport and I heard the familiar warble of this hedgerow and scrub bird, the Common Whitethroat. What a bird!
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Has any one noticed most birds have stopped singing?
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^why is that? because spring is over?
i see the blackbird doesn't sing anymore....you know i loved listening to him this spring, it's actually quite tamed and comes quite lose to you.
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Blackbirds are a major sound of Spring for me too. I have heard a couple of Blackbirds sing lately but it is more or less over. I am sure Blackbirds might be feeding young into the early autumn as they are multi-brooded. I did see a male Blackbird will a beak full of worms yesterday. Most birds are quite now.
When I was in Dorset I did hear Song Thrush and Chiffchaf 3 weeks ago and in fact I have heard them both up north too over the last week.
Some birds have already started to leave ie Cuckoo, Spotted Flycatcher. Winter migrants have already arrived. Green Sandpipers and Spotted Redshanks have been recorded at wetlands - they dont breed in the UK. Our local Oystercatchers have disappeared. There are less Curlew on the moors and more Curlew on the estuaries where they spend the winter.
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The scratchy warble of a Dartford Warbler perched on Gorse on a southern heathland.
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What an awful British sprign it has been! I thought were were still in February.
