Jan 23 2021 - What time do birds get up in the morning?
What time do birds get up the morning? This winter morning the sun is rising and no birds are singing. But it is bitter cold winter, and birds don't do a lot of singing in January.
I find out that birds generally begin singing 30 – 90 minutes before the sunrise. That's around 4:00am in the spring time. Different birds will chime in at different times. Blackbirds, robins, and thrushes are among the first to begin singing. Others will soon join them and this chorus will last until the sunrise fades. Intensity of sunlight makes for earlier wake-up times.
It is winter now, so birds wake up at about 7:00am in winter. They will begin singing their dawn choruses, but not with so large a chorus. Birds tend to wake up whenever they sense daylight. The time that birds wake up varies a lot among different species and different environments where there is light pollution and changing seasons.
Yesterday, it was past 7:30am and there aren't any birds on the feeders out front. At 7:50am a flock of sparrows come in to the feeder and start their chatter. But then the sun was shining on the horizon. Today is an overcast day, so it will be interesting to find out what time they come to the feeder.
Yesterday I was alert to the visiting hawk. I checked that it wasn't out there. There was one the day before, and Baxter was at the office window staring up at it. It flew off when it saw me come in and sit in the chair. Last year, a hawk was attacking the sparrows in the hedge next door. It was jumping into the hedge from the ground. Later that day, I watched Baxter who proceeded to repeat the technique. Neither were successful - both get my admiration for ingenuity.
These pictures are from 2014 - this is Jordan Harbour looking towards the Lake. It froze over so smoothly that people were playing hockey and ice sailing. I've not seen this since, although my sister said people were skating on the lagoon pond at Charles Daley Park. That's just down the road a bit on the Lake side of the highway.
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