which wonderful birds did i hear?

[tweetfreq]

hello, i hope you can help.

I was in Glastonbury early June 2007.I was lying in my tent around 11am, all i could hear very high above me were 2 birds,one to the right and one to the left. (they must have been circling around for hours.)

its very hard to type what i heard but, i'll have a go.

first of all .every song/call was very different from the last, unlike say a crow or a pigeon.
they were very melodic and perfectly in tune. i lost count of how many variations.(beautiful songs) wow.

o.k the strange thing was that , although the songs were so different, the second bird to the left was repeating the song to the right, at times both birds were perfectly in sync or just a few milliseconds apart.i was in the centre on the ground.

it was so amazing i cant explain how it felt. is it possible they were improvising or did they learn all these tunes from their parents or other birds in a flock?

well i hope this was enough info.

does anyone know what type of bird this could be?

thanks for any help. Even a guess would be great, i'd love to find a recording of this bird.

kind regards.

tweetfreq.

[paulchandler6]

Just a thought, but maybe Skylark. Not too many species have an arial song flight. so its possibly that. Cheers

[naturelover]

what about a nightingale they sing beatifully.

[tweetfreq]

wow, thank you. i'll see if i can find an mp3 somewhere.

[tweetfreq]

hello.

i heard a very short clip of a skylark ( 3 secs) it does sound very much like what i heard.

But it is hard to be sure because the clip is so short . what i heard were hundreds of phrases that were different from the last.

i shall see if i can find a better source on the internet , maybe there is a cd dedicated to this bird? it certainly deserves one. i so wish i had my recorder that day. next year i shall see if the same bird is around and record it and post a link on this site for you all to enjoy.

I haven't found a nightingale clip yet tho. I shall have a further search

thanks so much for your help , i would never have found a lead otherwise.

best wishes

[Deer Stalker]

Hi Tweetfreq. Welcome to WAB.

Definatly sounds like Skylark.

[agrumpycow]

Hi Tweetfreq,
There are audio clips on birds on the RSPB website. Just click on 'birds by name' and there's an alphabetical list of birds in the UK.
I heard a skylark for the first time this summer and they sound great, don't they!

[John]

I doubt if there is any other bird in that locality that would stay in the air for long periods singing other than a Skylark.

Definitely not the skulking Nightinglale as they call from deep in vegetation, plus there aren't any around Glastonbury as far as I am aware.

John

[tweetfreq]

You guys are great!!!

Wow i would never have found this out otherwise.

Those 2 birds i heard were something special, i must admit. i love bird song, but not only did they have many wonderful phrases it was the way they knew what the other was about to do.

As i said i was right in the middle (i'm actually a sound engineer by trade) and they blew me away.

a birds mind must be operating at a very high frequency and extreme low latency with regards to hearing and singing . (like a super audio computer)

to think they may have been perhaps only a year or two in age? Yet they can fly and sing in the way they do.

best wishes.

tweetfreq

p.s the lyer bird is another that impressed me ,its actually an organic sampler with wings. haha