Isn't It Lovely To Hear Our Birds Singing.

[ladybirder]

I've heard this for most the day "Teacher Teacher Teacher Teacher". Pause. "Teacher Teacher Teacher Teacher" pause - ad infinitum.

Isn't it just wonderful. My local Great Tit bigging himself up LOL.

Anybody else been listening?

[shoota]

All I can hear is power tools - my neighbour is putting a new kitchen in. :-(

[Zacs-Master]

We have Swifts already this year! Come to nest in our eaves in the nest they built last year. A sign of good weather or blown here quicker than usual by the southerly winds we’ve been getting?

[iluvmargie]

Not heard a Great Tit today, but have heard one recently. I love the birds. I still have long tailed tits feeding, but an absence of other birds as they are all busy nest making just now. They'll be back soon!

[ladybirder]

Poor you Shoota, I hope it doesn't take him all week:-(

That is amazing Zacs, so early. How lucky are you. Love to see them whizzing around, unmistakeable.

[AuntPollyGrey]

We have the haunting calls of the Curlew as they swoop over the moors. Its one of my favourite sounds of Spring.

[ladybirder]

LTTs are so beautiful aren't they Margie. Gorgeous looking birds. They sort of mutter quietly among themselves rather than announce their presence to the whole neighbourhood like the GT.

[Barsel]

Here in Manchester we have the coughing of the pigeons and the squawking of the seagulls who sometimes come over on a day trip from Blackpool.

[iluvmargie]

Yes, they are beautiful ladybirder. My favourite of all though is the blackbird. I absolutely adore those birds, they are so full of character. I have one that comes every day, he tucks into the dried mealworms and then hops over to the water bowl for a drink. I make sure it's always topped up for him.

[ummmm]

It's been nice. Usually we just hear crows in the morning but now it's lots of other nicer sounding birds.

I know nothing about birds though so wouldn't be able to identify them.

[ladybirder]

OMG Aunt Polly. When I lived in the North Yorkshire Dales I heard them every morning when I woke up. The most wonderful sound, my favourite actually.
Do you mind me asking if you live in the NYD? I noticed you mentioned Teesdale recently and that reminded me of a group of us birdwatchers spending a weekend in Teesdale at the Langdon Beck Hotel. On the Sunday we got up at some unearthly hour, (February), freezing cold and dark, to watch a Black Grouse Lek. Amazing, the sound coming up off the moor in the dark was worth the effort many times over.

[Patsy33]

Yes, it's lovely to hear them all. It's good a lot of people who probably wouldn't have noticed before..

[Prudie]

Yes the birds are all full of the joys of spring here - blissfully unaware of what we're going through. I always notice them anyway, lucky enough to have lots round me - loads of them 'at it' in the trees :-)

[Mamyalynne]

Always plenty of birdsong here as well as the sounds of the ducks,geese and an occasional moorhen too, not forgetting my nightly serenade from the owl - I am hearing them more probably because of less distant traffic noise.

[naomi24]

Lovely to see the butterflies out and about in the sunshine too.

[poorclare]

Yes it is, ~ sadly my neighbour hates birds and trees

[ladybirder]

Glad to see so many of us enjoying the birds and butterflies, something badly needed to cheer us up.
There's a blackbird mooching about in my border at the moment, chuntering to itself as they do, usually the last there before dark descends.
Poorclare, what an odd person, I can just about get someone not liking a bird fluttering near them but trees, I don't get that at all. Why?

[sherrardk]

We’ve just been on our walk and saw a yellow wagtail, I’ve never seen one before.

[Mamyalynne]

Lovely Sherr, they are a pretty bird.

[sherrardk]

Didn’t see it very close up but it caught mine and thing 2’s eye because it was flying so oddly.

[Patsy33]

Talking of seeing butterflies, I've seen a few in my garden lately. One I can't ever remember seeing, was a complete black one, about the size of cabbage white. Anyone know what it is called?