Dawn Chorus? Does anyone else set their alarm so that they can lie in bed and listen to this wonderful sound?

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4 months ago

What great responses! Thank you.

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I%26#039;m with the others......I%26#039;m woken by the sound. Aren%26#039;t we lucky to live in a country with so many tuneful birds.Mine are still singing by the way; thrushes, blackbirds, blue-****, wrens, robins and I think the warblers are back. Don%26#039;t much care for all the jackdaws and magpies. Too many of them.
The only thing I object to is when a pheasant lands with a thump on my bedroom roof. This happens quite often and is very startling if you are asleep.
Years back I thought I had a nightingale but realised that my blackbirds were still singing in the dark...........lovely. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT YAHOO TOOK OUT THE WORD ****

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Hello Shirley.
Yes, isnt that ridiculous of Yahoo? I think that the hyphen did it. Another respondent used bluetits as one word and it got past the Yahoo police.
I know you read widely, so you have probably read Richard Maybe%26#039;s book Whistling in the dark, about the nightingale.
Beautiful.

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• Having to get up early every morning for work, I enjoy the dawn chorus every day.
  
  This year seems to be better than ever, and it is pleasing to think that with all the trouble in the world, at least the birds have reason to be singing a happy song.
  
  Let the dawn chorus lift our spirits at the start of a new day.
• We hear the Dawn Chorus every morning as my husband has to get up really early to go to work. We sit and drink our ritual morning coffee, whilst listening to all the beautiful birdsong. As we live near the sea we used to get awoken by sea gulls squawking, but this year the small birds have taken over to giving us their recital, and in particular the blackbirds, robins, and bluetits, occasionally we hear thrushes.
  
  Where we lived previously we used to enjoy hearing a nightingale as it became dusk.
• Isn%26#039;t it just the most glorious racket in nature! Although I do sympathise with contributor above who finds pigeons call a bit tedious. I still wake up to the warble of Australian Magpies (the greatest dawn song of all) and expect to hear that %26quot;Coo coo coo-coo, Coo coo cooo%26quot; repeated ad infinitum.
• No because I%26#039;m usually up before daybreak being a poor night sleeper.
  I hear the blackbirds first then the house sparrows just before the first rays appear over the eastern hills on the other side of the valley some twelve miles away. During this past week a cuckoo can be heard and sometimes a few crows - I live in the valley of the crows, Cwmbran, here in South Wales.
  What a lovely way to start the day. Life - a long one
• I don%26#039;t set my alarm but if i%26#039;m awake at that time i do lay there listening to it - its the most beautiful sound on earth i think, my favourite! No wonder they go to bed early ha ha, they%26#039;re up at the crack of dawn singing to us lot ha ha. Bless %26#039;em. Great question by the way.
• i totally agree this must be the most beautiful sound at the moment. My daughter 17 absolutely adores it, and wakes herself to lie and listen. We actually dont need the alarm, the birds awake us!
• no!!! i love to hear all the birds EXCEPT for a stupid pigeon that sits on our neighbours roof! its call drives me insane! im afraid it will be getting a stone catapulted up its backside if it wakes me up anymore!!!
• ves i do