Twitchers - what are these birds keeping me awake???

[Ray Luxury-Yacht]

Hm. Curious one this, as I've never had it before...
Come summer or winter, I have to sleep with the window open, must always have fresh air in my room.

This winter, and this winter only, there are birds singing outside at night, that often keep me awake, and occasionally have woken me up!

I'm sure most birds have buggered off south, but am I right in saying blackbirds stay? As during the day I still see them around.

Anyway I start to hear them singing in the late evening, and they seem to get their loudest around 2am....sometimes so loud they wake me up and I assume it's dawn, but no, it's the middle of the night!

That's not right is it? Can someone explain WTF is going on??? Are they 'night shift workers' or something??

[Pipster1969]

I reckon Song Thrush, we have one out the front of our house and I have to say I don't mind it at all.

[Pipster1969]

Or a Robin, they tend to sing quite late into the night.

[blueedge]

Robins and blackbirds will often sing late at night/early in the morning if there are streetlights, it's thought they get confused about the lights being the sunrise and start their dawn chorus a little early. We had a particularly vocal robin last year who would sing at a similar time in the morning on a tree beneath a streetlight outside our house, I think at least one neighbour got a little frustrated with it given the shouting I heard directed towards the bird one morning!

[central]

Robin is most likely, followed by Blackbird and Song Thrush. They can be fooled by street lighting into thinking the Sun is rising.

Certainly not the migrant Nightingale. They're in Africa at the moment.

[Simpo Two]

It's me, in that bush just outside, with a tape-player...

[toplessjan]

A big moon has done it for our local blackbird just lately, 3am it started the other morning! Lovely song.

[karona]

Try two male Little Owls shrieking like demented cats on opposite sides of the garden.
Nearly as noisy as 'horny-donkey' season!

[Trefy5]

Blackbirds - last to bed first to rise
RSPB Link >> http://www.rspb.org.uk/wildlife/birdguide/name/a/
they have some sounds of bird song which may assist