Last night, about 9 o’clock I heard a sudden intense bird song. I have never heard a bird song like that before. I saw the bird which looked like a slim line thrush. I have looked online and think it could have been a nightingale. We look to be on the edge of the habitat for nightingales on the RSPB website. Has anyone else seen or heard a nightingale here? Am I deluding myself?!
Fiona H
Bird Identification Help Please
Thursday June 16, 2016 by Fiona H
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For what you described, it sounds like a nightingale. Last we heard one was in Great Longstone (near Bakewell) but not around here…
There is a song clip on the RSPB section on nightingales, see
http://www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynature/discoverandlearn/birdguide/name/n/nightingale/
I heard a recording of a fantastic 1930s radio broadcast (it was a very early outside broadcast), where a cellist was giving a recital from her own garden with a nightingale harmonising.
There is a website google bird song it will play the bird song and identify the bird for you.
Yes, I listened to the RSPB recording when trying to identify the bird and am pretty certain that it was a nightingale but doubted whether it could really be the case. It was SO loud!
I am reliably informed that these same birds have been heard in Berkeley Square.
Hi Fiona, sorry for replying on this so late. I feel it’s unlikely to be a Nightingale.
They mainly reside in Southern England south of a line from the Severn to the Wash. From what I could find out there’s only been a dozen recorded sightings in the last sixty odd years in Derbyshire.
They also usually only sing from April to late May/early June.
Without seeing the bird it’s hard to say for sure but seems unlikely though not impossible to me.
/Steve