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Something fun for the family - songbird soundboard:


'What time do birds start to sing?


Have you often wondered who is singing outside your window when you wake up, and how long they have been at it? Birds use sunrise and the increasing daylight as an indication of when it is time to sing, and in perfect harmony they begin in a certain order. Starting with usually a single bird species closely followed by others when their time is right; and like a beautifully conducted orchestra you should be able to enjoy this bird concert every morning in the same order. Birds start well before sunrise and the earliest is the Robin so you will have to be prepared to listen out quite early to hear him performing solo.


Birds sing mainly in the breeding season, so you will hear males trying to impress females in order to build nests in the first half of the year with peak singing activity between April and June.


Click on each bird individually in the chart below to hear their song and you can also see an indication of when they start to sing in the morning - it's not called the Dawn Chorus for nothing!'


https://www.birdfood.co.uk/bird-song?utm_campaign=2190892_International%20Dawn%20Chorus&utm_medium=email&utm_source=CJ%20WildBird%20Foods%20Limited&dm_i=4K7A,1AYI4,6ASLVC,60S90,1

Parakeets none..but watch them for a while...intelligent, acrobatic, sociable and all those attributes make it difficult to discourage but interesting to watch. Although they can?t be bothered with niger seed feeders, so goldfinches are left alone.

Tree is beautiful and bird song link great!

Saw and heard a greenfinch on Greendale...haven?t seen one for years.

I feed birds (squirrel-proof feeder) and squirrels eat the bird-rejected seed off the ground.


This morning a grey squirrel was leaping in short but high leaps persistently around the back garden and appeared to be trying to catch something very mobile but too small for me to see from a distance of about 15'. The jumps were very like a cat I saw trying to catch a mouse.


Trying to catch an insect? Anyone know or seen this behaviour?

Keep eyes and ears open for the arrival of the swifts... must be any day now, I hope. Here's my list of the first recorded swifts in ED since 2011 (from the forum and my own observations):

2011 ? May 9

2012 ? May 1

2013 ? May 17

2014 ? May 8

2015 ? May 9

2016 ? May 4

2017 ? May 6

2018 ? May 7

2019 ? May 8

2020 ? May 6

2021 ? May 9

Thanks for that BNG .Did you see that er are being encouraged by RSPB to leave mud pies out to help swifts with nest building ?


https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/may/05/mud-water-to-help-nesting-migrating-birds-during-uk-heatwave-rspb-aoe

BrandNewGuy Wrote:

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> Keep eyes and ears open for the arrival of the

> swifts... must be any day now, I hope. Here's my

> list of the first recorded swifts in ED since 2011

> (from the forum and my own observations):

> 2011 ? May 9

> 2012 ? May 1

> 2013 ? May 17

> 2014 ? May 8

> 2015 ? May 9

> 2016 ? May 4

> 2017 ? May 6

> 2018 ? May 7

> 2019 ? May 8

> 2020 ? May 6

> 2021 ? May 9



May 9th - 08:15 swifts ahoy!

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