Which birds sing all summer long? Robins do. They are singing this morning as though they just got back from the south. Robins only stop singing while they are moulting. While robins can sing all day long it is in the earliest hours, typically starting at 4:00am that they sing louder, livelier, and more frequently. If we were to follow robins to their winter homes, they sing all winter too. They only stop singing at night, and are one of the last to stop singing each day.
Some birds sing more when it is cooler in the early mornings or after a rain. Others prefer the hot weather - goldfinches are an example of this.
We can expect birds to go on singing into summer and to diminish around August when they are moulting or foraging widely as food is abundant. Many of us have really noticed the bird song this year. With less traffic noise and fewer people about this year, it is easier to hear them and birds are more active.
More irises today, again taken at the Royal Botanical Gardens Laking Garden. This is a messy flower in my view. Even if it was allowable to pick or cut off the dead flowers, there would likely be damage to the overall stem. So it is hard to get a picture of a grouping or mass of flowers. Mostly one takes portraits of individual flowers.
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