A Birdie tweeting

[Choc]

every night all night (especially active from midnight) in Rushcroft Road,

like it was spring time!


is that normal though ? anymore birds tweeting in london around this time of the year?


and no, it is not only in my own head..it is genreally audible as well

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

We hear lots of tweeting at all different times. It must be all the neighbours doing bird next door

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I haven't been able to get to sleep until late for the last few nights - so I've noticed that the birds all start tweeting at around 2am..... (I live just near Jamm off Brixton Road.)

 

[boskysquelch]

- so I've noticed that the birds all start tweeting at around 2am.....

it's been happening in Cornwall too...frkkn weird..but noone believes meh.

 

[poster342002]

every night all night

Perhaps it's a nightingale?

 

[hayduke]

Yeah I've been wondering about that too. I live on Atlantic. Been hearing a serious amount of late night tweeting for the last couple of weeks. Odd isn't it?

 

[myname]

yep, there's been a blackbird singing all night every night for the past few weeks, i wonder when it sleeps.

 

[story]

Yep, same here.

I think it is a blackbird. Must be knackered come daylight...

 

[colin37400]

I can confirm that birds were also heard tweeting at 3am on Brixton hill last weekend.

Do they know something we don't?

I think they are planning something. I think everyone needs to keep a very close eye on them.

 

[RushcroftRoader]

I have plants blooming in my garden. And at least one mouse that should be a hibanating is awake behind my washing machine!!

 

[sayjann3]

Interesting

I am very glad you have mentioned this, I heard it all last night. I thought I was imagining it or my neighbour had built an aviary in their sitting room.

I am in North London.

SJ

 

[Brixton Hatter]

global warming innit. all the birds think it's springtime or something

 

[avenginangel]

No this is light pollution causing this. The skies are too light they don't know it's night. Not nightingales I'm afraid, I think it's usually blackbirds. It's a shame, must make it harder for them to get enough food together.

 

[story]

So why are they suddenly singing more just recently? No more light than usual...

 

[avenginangel]

It seems to me they've been doing it for years, but maybe it's increased I don't know. Is it lighter lately?

 

[ovaltina]

I haven't heard birds tweeting for ages, do they normally stop during the winter? I just thought it was because there aren't any trees near me

 

[avenginangel]

They tweet all year round, but at night they're not supposed to. Unless they're nocturnal.

 

[hendo]

ASBO the noisy tykes before they damage the house prices.

 

[newbie]

There's two or three out there at the moment, singing away. Robins I think but not sure.

 

[moominpappa]

It's usually Robins that are singing this time of year as they're one of the few birds that maintain their territory all year round. Should sound like this:

http://www.garden-birds.co.uk/birds/sounds/robin.mp3

 

[innit]

I noticed them doing it when I came to South London in 1999, haven't noticed it getting particularly worse.
I didn't know it was light pollution though - very interesting!

 

[Nickster]

You're not alone, Choc! I've been kept awake by birdsong in the early hours several times this past week (back gardens of Saltoun Road). It seems to happen more when it's cloudy and the sky appears a dull orange (from the street lighting) as a result.

 

[Choc]

wow, what a tweeting response.

last night the bird singing kept me awake until really late. i just couldn't go to sleep -thinking of springtime and my childhood

i haven't noted birds tweeting in previous years this time of the year.

global warming springs to my mind too. but i hope it is not that!

 

[Choc]

ASBO the noisy tykes before they damage the house prices.

lol

but before that ASBO the noisy human types in rushcroft road too. hmpf!

 

[Choc]

it's been happening in Cornwall too...frkkn weird..but noone believes meh.

whilst light pollution sounds reasonable i don't think you have light pollution in cornwall too..so it is unlikely to be only due to one reason. might be a variety of factors like global warming and light pollution together plus whatever else...-maybe gm crops/food..?


conspiracies..

 

[newbie]

i haven't noted birds tweeting in previous years this time of the year.

global warming springs to my mind too. but i hope it is not that!

I first noticed birds singing at night in brixton sometime in the early 80s

 

[story]

They're off again! 1:15 in the morning, and it's singing away like a good'un.