Strange awakening...

Robins are apparently the first to sing and the last to sing during a day, particulary when mating..so they are used to low levels of light..it can sometimes be triggered though by a strange noise..or artificial light..

Holly, were we used to live we had a Robin sing very early in the morning, I always heard him as my husband used to leave early not quite 3-25.
Since we've been here I haven't heard the one in the garden.....

We had night warblers in a place I lived once. They tweeted and tweeted all through the early hours. I remember going out at 2am to try and see them. They were a nuisance lol you couldn't get back to sleep for ages :o(

Researchers claim urban birds have taken to singing at night because it is too noisy for their melodies to be heard during the daytime,

yes i have a robin and have heard his songs very early holly, especially when we forget to turn the garden lights off lol, lovely sound though and always the last bird in the evening to be in the garden :o)

I was very surprised to hear birds chirping away all through the night when I worked at a plastic factory. I often had to go out into the "backyard" during my shift & when on the night shift (12 midnight till 8am) I heard the birds most nights of the year but could very rarely see any of them!

Hi Holly, how are you feeling, no doubt you've not been sleeping too well. We've heard the robin singing late at night, I believe they are marking their terriory running up to the breeding season, wonderful to hear.

They sing all night long by me Hywel as I live next to the grave yard and the street lights in the lane, they will normally sing where the street lights are, also its mateing time lol he who sings the loudest and longest shows strenth to the female to court as she will chose him as he shows he is strong for her to bare strong babies. A bit like its instinct for a woman to chose a rich or powerful man she thinks of her babies for the future, being well looked after lol.

there is a robin that sings near here quite late at night, its definitely dark but tesco express have bright lights and i think thats what makes him sing. perhaps there was a light on somewhere near you that made the bird sing holly?

It is a Blackbird that sings bright and early here, usually about three, he is right at the top of my leylandi.There is a street light right there as well. Also he nest's there as well.

We get woken at night by owls! There are several 'T'wit T'woo-ers' around most nights, as well as the 'electronic' Scops Owls beeping through the night. Zzzzzzzzzzzzz :o(

what are electronic scops owls nariz?

Im not the only one to hear the birds at night then.....
We have orange street lights where i live, so it is quite light. But ive never heard a Robin as earyl as that before.....and ive lived here for 5 years.....
Heard him at 7.30 this morning much better......
Yes Nariz what are electronic scops owls.....
Thank you Dawn.. im feeling a bit better, but its going to take some getting used to.... im sleeping ok...apart from the robin the other morning.....

when i heard a bird singing late at night, in the dark, i googled it and thats how i found out that it was very likely to be a robin.
all the best, i know how sad you must feel.

Thanks Sticki....

Hi Holly. It will, time is the great healer x

How strange you should write this blog, Holly, just after I heard night time singing too! I think it was a robin here but didn't actually see it. The flats for the elderly on the other side of the pond have left a light on recently so I guess that caused the confusion!

You must be feeling very flat just now. As others have said, time does heal and happier memories come to the fore. Thinking of you :)

OK: Move over Sir David Attenborough ....... Scops Owls are the smallest owls and like to live near (or in) buildings and they make a strange 'electronic-sounding' constant beep through the night. When I first heard one I thought something was wrong with the street lamp outside our casa, but then I happened to read about Scops Owls while I was trying to identify another bird and realised that I'd heard an owl. They are very difficult to see, due to being nocturnal and so small and I've yet to see one - but they are around. One day ...... Lesson over :o)

thanks nariz ~ i thought it was some kind of alarm !!! sound interesting little birds.

I thought that to Nariz... thanks for your info......
Its strange gee how many of us have heard birds singing at night isnt it..... thanks everyone for all your kind thoughts......