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Jul 2022
5:12pm, 20 Jul 2022
5,517 posts
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steve45
Just one singing Blackcap; silent times a - coming soon..
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Jul 2022
5:20pm, 20 Jul 2022
56,270 posts
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Derby Tup
Very quiet here already. One tired chiffchaff at lunchtime 
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Jul 2022
5:20pm, 20 Jul 2022
1,478 posts
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paulcook
I had a couple of chirruping sparrows this morning and a little blackbird chatter. Feels all round too warm for birdsong!!
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Jul 2022
7:04pm, 20 Jul 2022
5,907 posts
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TheScribbler
Our regular visiting dunnock has been keeping up a pretty extensive one note alarm call.
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Jul 2022
7:18pm, 20 Jul 2022
18,026 posts
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KinkyS
If you want lots of bird sounds, get yourself a hyperactive family of house martins nesting in your eaves. They have an amazing range of trills, squeaks, chirrups and chatterings and they get excited at the merest little thing 
A couple of days ago a kestrel flew over the hillside opposite the house and all my and my neighbour's house martins went racing off across the valley to gang up on it and chase it away!
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Jul 2022
7:19pm, 20 Jul 2022
9,024 posts
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Northern Exile
Yeah, House Martins are noisy little buggers. On that subject, can anyone tell me why it is that they prefer white eaves??
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Jul 2022
7:30pm, 20 Jul 2022
18,027 posts
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KinkyS
I've no idea, there doesn't seem to be any info out there other than general observation of preference. But our house is painted cream so it fits the theory perfectly.
Not just noisy little buggers but messy too - we're going to need a good pressure washing session when they've gone
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Jul 2022
8:01pm, 20 Jul 2022
9,025 posts
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Northern Exile
True. House Martins historically return to the area where I live and nest under the eaves of all the houses with white gables, they make an awful mess of any bay windows beneath. It's this that has led to several owners putting up those anti-nesting spikes.
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Jul 2022
6:17pm, 21 Jul 2022
6,291 posts
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um
Our feeders were overrun today, for about 10 mins, by a flock of 8-10 fairly scruffy / shaggy long tailed tits. The first I've seen this year.
Are they on the move somewhere? Youngsters learning to get out?
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Jul 2022
6:18pm, 21 Jul 2022
6,292 posts
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um
But they had learnt the skill .. take the food, hang on with one foot, feed with the other
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