Bee Happy Is VERY HApPY :)

Really gets going in April,

With Doves and Pigeons it's more a caller id, your collared dove sings "A pigeon,a pigeon.."

While your Wood Pigeon sings "A stupid pigeon, a stupid pigeon, a."

 

It all starts to go quiet on the morning song front around November time and then strikes up in January from a few hearty souls. By Spring it is in full swing with a whole host of birds adding their (territorial/courting) tones.
You may notice it goes a bit quieter around August time and that is when the adult birds go into moult and the fledglings get their adult feathers. Singing uses up energy which they need to divert during moult for producing their new shiny feathers. They start again end of August beginning of September through until November time and so the cycle begins all over again.
BTW, the blackbirds who are singing their hearts out in Spring are not the same blackbirds who are singing their hearts out come New Year All to do with migration, I believe.
NB: these are my humble offerings based on my personal experiences of both town and country living. Regional differences (I'm quite sure!) will apply
Oh, and it is beginning to get light here around 7am

 

You are, to the bird world, what the "Drive Thru" is to the human world

 

Think that same rule applies at a drive thru!

 

Even though I live on the edge of an estate and have up to 12 different birds come to the garden, there is no dawn chorus! Just the occasional Robin and Blackbird singing at dusk.

At least it is getting late earlier

 

The Tawney owls are back in the garden, never see them only hear them in spring and autumn. Sunday there was a woodpecker drumming away in the scrub at the back.

 

They are the ones singing here but just before sunrise; others will join in once the weather warms up a bit

Are you up early enough to hear them?

 

First 3 eggs of 2018 yesterday, our hens are back on the lay. Been watching Skylarks this morning that had arrived at their nesting site by Saturday.

 

Singing Chaffinch this morning.

 

Had my first two of the year on Sunday too third today I'm down to four hens now and it's the same girl laying. The colour of those yolks the flavour was wonderful
For me, that means Spring is most definitely around the corner