Is anyone good at recognising bird song ?

[MaC]

Is this of interest to anyone else here ? and if so, could you recommend sites where the sounds are actually 'right', please ?

Just now my world is full of bird song
The trees along the burn path, and the hedges and ivy covered fences around my garden, are full of birds. There are songs I don't recognise though, and there are birds appearing that are unfamiliar enough that I've to go and look up a book to check.

I know it's been cold, but it has really been a lovely Spring, and hearing the air filled again with birdsong is a pleasure

M

 

[Stew]

I’m trying to learn birdsong and find the birdNET app invaluable.

 

[BorderReiver]

I can recommend this app by Cornell University. Merlin

 

[MaC]

Any links other than apps.......

 

[BorderReiver]

RSPB garden birds.

 

[BorderReiver]

Any links other than apps.......

The Merlin app listens to the song and tells you what it is.

 

[MaC]

Thing is that I'm in and out of the garden and along the woodlands and I don't use a phone. I have a mobile phone but it's only real use is to be able to phone home and tell them where I've gotten to, or sitting waiting at the station to be told if something's up with the trains.
I don't carry it about is what I'm trying to say.

I hear the birds, I remember what I heard. I would like to listen to something clearly identified and compare.

My cousin sent me a CD from a French company (he nips across to France to shop once a month) but it's very, very limited, and it doesn't have all the birds I hear.

Thank you for the apps links though, I'll pass them along to Himself, who does carry his phone around.

M

 

[ElThomsono]

I’m trying to learn birdsong and find the birdNET app invaluable.

Anyone else like to imagine Stew's learning to sing birdsong?

 

[MaC]

I can whistle the buzzards to come gyre round and see

I can whistle to copy a few of the birds, and you can get some to respond. The great tits for instance, and you can annoy the Robin into coming to see what's making the 'challenge', but there are so many that there's no way to copy even all the ones I know.

M

 

[Saint-Just]

Many apps will struggle because birds have accents.
I shit you not.

 

[Stew]

Anyone else like to imagine Stew's learning to sing birdsong?

 

[Stew]

Many apps will struggle because birds have accents.
I shit you not.

I’m sure you’re right but so far BirdNET has done ok for me. Occasional double option suggested but not often.

 

[E. By Gum]

Anyone else like to imagine Stew's learning to sing birdsong?

There's some strange folks on here.

 

[Saint-Just]

I’m sure you’re right but so far BirdNET has done ok for me. Occasional double option suggested but not often.

Yes but you're not in Lanarkshire

 

[Stew]

It’s quite interesting seeing the sound patterns on BirdNET. I think having th visual helps my recall.

Anyone know what this is?

 

[E. By Gum]

Yes, a squiggle that makes no sound!

 

[E. By Gum]

Speaking of which, walkies today, saw buzzards, long tailed tits, and a nuthatch, I think.

 

[Stew]

Yes, a squiggle that makes no sound!

That’s one of the best jokes you’ve ever posted…..

 

[MaC]

We have a pair of nuthatches appear in the garden this Spring. First spotted them on the 23rd January, but they've hung around.
Buzzards fly overhead every day about 2pm. They seem to have a routine route kind of thing.
If you whistle high and long, falling at the end, and repeat and repeat, they'll gyre around and come and see what's making the noise

The long tailed tits come in in a flutter of a flock. They glom onto the fat block feeder and flitter back and forth between it and the rowan tree. There's always one sits apart and watches, kind of on lookout. They almost play tig to swap out the lookout so that one gets a feed too.