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| DaisyFarm |
Posted - Apr 22 2007 : 11:34:30 AM
What kind of songbird sings at night?? I heard him about midnight the other night and figured I was hallucinating...it had to be coming from a radio or tv somewhere in the house. But last night when I went to bed and it was dead quiet, I heard him again. It's not like a nighthawk or similar, this is an actual melody. Any ideas what it could be? It's almost a little creepy hearing him sing in the dead of night.
Di |
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| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - Apr 25 2007 : 07:02:53 AM
ROFL. I'm glad you didn't resist Lindy. Now I've got that picture in my head. Keep me giggling to myself all day. If you don't hear from me, they finally hauled me off...
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| Sweet Harvest Homestead |
Posted - Apr 24 2007 : 5:56:30 PM
Well, it goes a little something like this.
Oh, I come from Alabama with a Banjo on my knee.............
Sorry Michelle, couldn't resist ;)
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| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - Apr 23 2007 : 3:45:25 PM
Can you describe the song? Have you checked some songbird websites? Some have soundtracks you can play to see if the thrush matches. Or find a local birding group. They would be a good source of information about your midnight crooner.
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| Bluewrenn |
Posted - Apr 23 2007 : 11:43:34 AM
We've had the same thing happening here - the bird is SO LOUD! I think it's a mockingbird though. Sounds like he's in love. He's talking to himself, I think, cuz no one is responding...
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| Libbie |
Posted - Apr 23 2007 : 07:55:31 AM
Our robins sing at night sometimes - and then there's the confused rooster - but he's a bird of a completely different feather!!!
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| Mountain Girl |
Posted - Apr 23 2007 : 07:48:48 AM
Michelle, you are correct the nightingale an old world bird. The mockingbird range in my books is not that far north. My husband has heard a Swainson's thrush sing in the middle of the night and I think it's in your range. I've also read that robins can sing at night especially if there are outside lights on--it confuses them JoAnn
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| Huckelberrywine |
Posted - Apr 23 2007 : 07:14:49 AM
I thought there were no nightingales in the Americas? The mockingbird gets my vote.
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| Alee |
Posted - Apr 22 2007 : 7:56:37 PM
Georgann-
What a wonderful website! Thank you so much for sharing that with us!
Alee |
| MariaAZ |
Posted - Apr 22 2007 : 2:12:43 PM
We have a lot of mockingbirds in our neighborhood, and I love listening to them late at night. Around here they usually sing from around midnight to just before sunrise.
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| DaisyFarm |
Posted - Apr 22 2007 : 1:41:33 PM
Gee I wonder if that's what it could be, I have never heard a songbird sing at midnight. My field guide shows them as "accidental" in these Pacific northwestern parts. Now I need to get a flashlight at night and search him out!
Speaking of racket Lindy, I have a pair of mated(mating) flickers this spring. What a couple of noisy clowns they are!
Di
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| Sweet Harvest Homestead |
Posted - Apr 22 2007 : 1:18:37 PM
I think you have a Mockingbird A.K.A- Racket Bird.
We have one that wakes us at the stroke of midnight with lovely songs.
I have to turn a fan on to drown out the racket.
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| Tina Michelle |
Posted - Apr 22 2007 : 1:03:52 PM
do you have mockingbirds there?
we get mockingbirds that can sing at midnight around here.
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| DaisyFarm |
Posted - Apr 22 2007 : 12:46:19 PM
Hmmm...no nightingales in this neck of the woods.
Georgann - that is a really neat website.
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| Aunt George |
Posted - Apr 22 2007 : 12:11:44 PM
Try this site....it is alot of fun and you most likely can find your bird!!
http://www.birdnote.org/birdnote-transcript.cfm?id=1079
This is the URL directly to the nightingale with a story about the nightingale in the royal chinese court.
Enjoy!! I know my girls will love this site,
Georgann
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| Mikki |
Posted - Apr 22 2007 : 12:03:27 PM
Here in Indiana it would be a nightingale, when I'm in the cabin he sings me to sleep :0)
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| GaiasRose |
Posted - Apr 22 2007 : 11:53:34 AM
maybe a nightingale or a mourning dove...but they coo more than sing...
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| DeeDee |
Posted - Apr 22 2007 : 11:38:16 AM
Possibly a nightingale |
