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07-02-2009, 09:05 PM
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| | | Night Bird
Whilst walking home from the pub last night I heard a bird singing. It was about 2am. Who sings at this time of night?
It was a series of differing (rather musical) phrases about 2 seconds long, with something like 7 second gaps between them.
I recorded it on my mobile and have extracted a short mp3 but I don't know how to post audio files here.
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07-02-2009, 09:06 PM
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| | | Re: Night Bird
well depending on the number of lights it could have been a robin or a confused song thrush.  
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07-02-2009, 09:07 PM
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| | | Re: Night Bird
Probably a Robin, but also could be Blackbird or Song Thrush. Would have to hear it. |
07-02-2009, 09:09 PM
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| | | Re: Night Bird
I don't think it was a Song Thrush, they tend to be quite repetitive. Could be a Robin but I know Robins' songs quite well and it was too short with too many gaps.
Mind you they might have a different night song, or this one may well have been confused. |
07-02-2009, 09:09 PM
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| | | Re: Night Bird
'blackbird singing in the dead of night'? |
07-02-2009, 09:09 PM
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| | | Re: Night Bird
I would bet it was a Robin, there was an article about them on T.V. and they were filmed singing in a city at 2:00 in the morning, much like a Glasgow drunk.
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07-02-2009, 09:14 PM
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| | | Re: Night Bird
Someone else managed to upload their recording to another site & copied a link to here.
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07-02-2009, 09:19 PM
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| | | Re: Night Bird
It is quite Robin like, though I would love to post a link to the recording. Anyone know how best to do this? |
07-02-2009, 09:27 PM
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| | | Re: Night Bird
Yep, it worked.
It is a Robin. | | | |
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