Birds are singing at 3am in NYC

There's something super scary about birds (with the exception of owls) making noises at night. It just sounds so unnatural.

Why do birds sing so, ho-mo-sex'ul

And why are the gays so intellectual

Are you in Brooklyn? It’s the same over here. It is unsettling to hear birds at 3 am in the morning

You gonna die in 7 days

There's a technological reason for that, OP. Unfortunately.

Birds sing to mark and defend their territories.

We were trying to lighten the mood with our songs you ungrateful wench. Snow White never bitched like this.

They've started singing here outside my pad in Seattle on Lower Queen Anne for a few days. They're not supposed to start singing until the sun fucking comes up, not at five in the morning when it's still dark. This is the first time in the 22 years of living in this location I've heard birds singing before there was even a glimmer of light in the Eastern sky.

I woke at 3:00 am, birds were loud. Like 6:30 am loud. Why?

I’ve had crows yelling their heads off at around 3am as they stomp around my slate roof like they’re having a knock around game of football. Spring behaviour?

[quote] They're not supposed to start singing until the sun fucking comes up, not at five in the morning when it's still dark.

When I lived in Louisiana, the roosters started crowing at 3am well before sunrise.

[quote] It is unsettling to hear birds at 3 am in the morning

It would be even more unsettling to hear them at 3 am in the afternoon.

Do what every other NYer does.

It’s not like you have to go anywhere OP.

They sing at night early in the Spring because it's mating-time. The weather starts to warm up and they get to work. Also, as Spring advances, more birds fly north, so you'll have more birds in the northern part of the continent. I'm in N GA and locals are photographing all kinds of exotic birds that are just passing through right now (especially kinds of ducks). You probably hear the singing this year because there is a lot less ambient noise from cars, trucks and airplanes to drown out their songs in big cities. Down here, it is the mockingbirds who are the most crazed about singing in the darkest part of the night, repeating the same "phrase" over and over and over again.

Old Eldergay yells at cloud. Just get over it dude.

[quote]They sing at night early in the Spring because it's mating-time.

So basically, R15, they're all yelling "WHO WANTS TO FUCK ME!!!!" like they're on an Atlantis cruise. Good to know.

AND most of em are just drunk...

[quote] So basically, R15, they're all yelling "WHO WANTS TO FUCK ME!!!!" like they're on an Atlantis cruise. Good to know.

Or me at the cruising area.

[quote]There's a technological reason for that, OP. Unfortunately.

Please educate us R5.

There is also way less street noise so you are more aware of it

Far as birds and other wildlife are concerned it is 4am, not 3am. Just because humans have stupid laws about turning clocks ahead or back one hour Mother Nature does her own thing.

Noticed same the other morning ; but again birds have their own internal clocks that have nothing to do with what "time" it says on a clock or watch. And once one bird starts the rest wake up and chime in; sort of like roll call.

Sorry got that response muddled.

Sratch the "3am/4am bit" and just remember wildlife have their own internal clocks that have nothing to do with human time.

They’re hormonal little buggers out cruising at 3 am, just like you horny Grindr queens.

The males sing and they are advertising. Singing is energetically expensive for birds. By singing they are saying, "Look at me, I am in such good physical shape, I can waste energy. I'd make a good husband"

They are also saying, "See how loud and far my song carries, I'm a fit bird, so any other male birds, stay out of my space or I'll kick your ass."

Some birds like mockingbirds sing round the clock whenever it suits them.

If it’s dark outside you’re hearing a mockingbird or a nightjar. Probably a mockingbird. The males sing at night to attract a mate. They’re handsome birds & their “song” is most likely imitations of other birds. Mockingbirds are great imitators. They can imitate alarm clocks, cellphone rings (one in a park near me used to do a perfect phone ring back in the day of flip phones), dripping water, typewriters back in the day (including the sound of the “ding” at the end, and the readjustment of the carriage)

There’s nothing supernatural or eerie about it. Just goes to show how little people pay attention to the world around them & how lazy they are that they can’t bother to do a search for “birds that sing at night,” i preferring instead to attribute supernatural meaning to something that’s been going on since the dawn of time.

I used to live in Calgary and you could hear the birds at about 3am

[quote]”Look at me, I am in such good physical shape, I can waste energy. I'd make a good husband"

Bitch, don’t nobody want a husband! I’m just looking for an NSA hookup.

It is weird, the city sounds are now just birds and sirens.

I'm in Athens GA, and at night it's so quiet it's like being up in the mountains, or someplace like that. The only noticeable sound is the refrigerator...

Yeah, the birds near me have been way chattier than they've been in the past. I'm super happy for nature. Fuck us humans honestly. I support their revolution.

They're obviously millennial birds getting back from the bars

Well as there aren't any bars open in NYC atm (thanks to PAUSE order), that would be quite a feat.

R26

Word "nightjar" always puts me in mind of song "Come Down In Time"

The 3AM birds have always been around you people just don't usually pay attention to your surroundings. You see and hear amazing things when you don't ignore the natural world.

Fly birds

Back to the sky

Back to the eaves and the leaves

And the fields and the castles and ponds

GODDAMN IT

I sometimes wonder if all the nightlights in big cities confuse birds into thinking dawn is coming and its time to sing.

Tampa here. Had a mockingbird for 2 years that would sing every night from about midnight to just before dawn. He would sing a phrase three times, then another, then another and would repeat all over again. It seemed so much louder with the stillness of the night. Love to lay in bed and listen as I drifted off to sleep. It was glorious!

Mockingbirds are fucking nuts. They sing day and night.

It's in accordance with the prophesy.

OMG it's 3:48 and they won't shut up.

It;s 4:40 and a bird has started singing in Brooklyn. I live across from Prospect Park.

They've been going since 3:30 in the East Village.

[quote]Well as there aren't any bars open in NYC atm (thanks to PAUSE order), that would be quite a feat. There are lots of bars still open. The kind that you aren't welcome at

Get a white noise app for your phone, OP. Play it when you want to sleep.

You in danger gurl

[quote] He would sing a phrase three times, then another, then another and would repeat all over again.

Maybe that’s the only song he knows, the poor thing.

I love the sound of birds I don’t know how it could keep anybody up at night. Even jays are soothing.

R49 - it's the inanely repeated phrase from the mockingbirds that gets to you; it goes on and on, repeated exactly the same way, for minutes at a time without changing.

I live in New York and I love it. They are cheering the hospital workers , like the New Yorkers who clap at 7 PM.

I'm not in NY but there is a scrub jay that seemingly now lives in my back yard. I'd get some bird feed but he/she seems plump and healthy enough. I haven't decided on a name yet.

Are they singing Green Finch and Linnet Bird?

It's from these fucking new LED street lights OP. It's the same thing here in Queens.

^ that sucks that the light pollution has the poor birds all mixed up

Don’t name wild animals. It’s bad luck for them.

[quote] ^ that sucks that the light pollution has the poor birds all mixed up

Birds aren’t “messed up.” Mockingbirds sing at night & other birds start singing before dawn. Its normal. Just because a mockingbird happens to be audible in your neighborhood doesn’t mean the world has changed or anything is wrong.

Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near?

R57 I noticed immediately the birds singing at night once the new LED street light were installed in my neighborhood. So they are indeed "messed up".

Wild animals are loving are disappearance. Just enjoy their happiness. At least, someone is enjoy their best life.

The rats have become much bolder since there are less people to frighten them off. This afternoon, I was walking down the street and there were two of them right in the middle of the sidewalk, not even practicing social distancing.

[quote] Wild animals are loving are disappearance.

Oh, dear.

oh deer

Thank you, R34. I hadn’t heard or even thought about that song in decades. That came off an album that I played over and over again when I was 14 or15. The song is as beautiful to me now as it was then. I can’t believe I was ever that young.

Temps dropped a little in the South last night, and because of this thread, I noticed that the mockingbirds didn't start to sing until about 6 a.m. this morning, instead of the usual 3:30 lately...

Mockingbirds sing at night if they want to mate.

The robins in Brooklyn were up at 3 this morning

As long as they’re not singing to you in Greek, you’re probably okay.

[quote] [R57] I noticed immediately the birds singing at night once the new LED street light were installed in my neighborhood. So they are indeed "messed up"

Birds have been dealing with street lighting for years, dimwit.

Many flocks of birds migrate at night. They call to each other to stay together.

Welcome to spring, DL.

Mockingbirds sing at night. It’s nothing new. It’s as old as time. Just because you only noticed it recently is meaningless.

Birds will continue singing before dawn. It’s called ....get this.....the dawn chorus.

It peaks in May.

I'm not sure there's fucking mockingbirds here in Queens NY, dimwit R69

r70 Mockingbirds live in New York City year-round.

[quote]The northern mockingbird is a species that is found in both urban and rural habitats. There are now more northern mockingbirds living in urban habitats than non-urban environments, so they are consequently known as an urban-positive species.

This thread has given me an idea for another bad movie!!!

They're hoarding our toilet paper!

R70, they’re mocking you.

[quote]I was walking down the street and there were two of them right in the middle of the sidewalk, not even practicing social distancing.

Rats don't get coronaviruses, they don't have to practice it.