Blackbirds are silly sods. They shout about the smallest thing and will go potty over perceived disaster. Wrens are similar. Got one in the garden at the moment doing endless alarm calls. It’s doing my head in.
Since they have recently fledged babies at this time of year it could be an elevated sense of anxiety about that. Usually baby blackbirds hop around idiotically, asking for food, and for a predator to sort them out.
I think most birds are generally either shouting “FUCK ME” or “DO YOU WANT TO FUCK ME” or “FUCK OFF”.
Reason for commotion: he’s a blackbird. It’s what they do.
Blackbird, very likely to have a young one nearby and sending out warnings to other birds
We have some that visit and the noise is ear splitting when the babies follow the parents into the garden
Cat nearby
Pretty sure it’s a female blackbird (yes they’re brown).
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It’s probably saying:
“Oi mum, MUUUM!! There’s some random person in that window taking pictures of me!!”
With birds its usually one of the following.. ‘Do one’, ‘Do me’ or ‘danger will robinson, danger’.
Thats danger because its looking about frantically and tweeting loudly and quickly.
Some birds, like parrots..well.. mine learned distress calls of seagulls, the warning calls of two murders of crows and the calls of a nearby owl.
Some just like mischief.
ALAN! ALAN!.. STEVE?
That’s the *where are my fledglings at call*
We have a blackbird does this when the cats are out and about.
This is my favourite page on blackbird calls. You’ve got a really good recording of “chinking”.
Serious attempt at guess-answering: from experience I’ve noticed other birds do something very similar if they can see a cat – alarm calling perhaps?
The blackbird family in our garden did this every time our cat went outside. Cat was most discombobulated and became agoraphobic.
I had a two birds in the garden going crazy like that for ages, when I went to investigate, they had a nest up in a tree, and there was a cat sleeping on the ground under the tree. I took the cat back to its own garden and the birds calmed down immediately.
He swallowed a smoke detector and the battery is low.
He swallowed a smoke detector and the battery is low.
According to the closed captions it is saying ‘goodnight. Goodnight’
Lost a chick and trying to find it
You need to move. It’s his house now.
You need to move. It’s his house now.
That’s a juvenile black bird. When the young black birds leave the nest the adults help them for a little while, showing how to forage for insects, pecking for worms and turning up leaves, things like that, basically getting them ready for the real world. After a little time though the parents will leave them to fend for themselves. It’s basically crying out for mum because it feels it’s not ready for the real world.
It’s an alarm/distraction noise used by Blackbirds when the magpies/cats visit. We hear that a lot in our garden when they’re nesting in our honeysuckle.
That’s a blackbird and it’s quite likely there’s a cat or predator around. That’s an alert sound off.
Blackbird, that’s an alarm call, not a mating call. Probably cats or magpies nearby.
Blackbird calling out a warning. Maybe it has a nest close by and there’s a cat on the prowl.
Birder here with a public service announcement: please don’t call us “twitchers”. That word has a specific meaning that doesn’t apply to everyone who likes looking at birds.
We will accept “birdwatcher”, “birder” or “sad, bird-obsessed loser”.
Thanks!
Blackbird alarm call
I have a blackbird who’s practically become a pet, she does this when I’m in my kitchen to get my attention to put food out.
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Horny?
He’s probably sending out a warning to other blackbirds not to trespass on his territory.
definitely a bird.
He looks young. Maybe he’s been ejected from his nest and he is anxious? That would be my guess.
He’s trying to tell you what’s wrong but you’re clearly not listening
In my experience it’s because some Magpies have eaten his family.
https://preview.redd.it/euea7dpn79df1.png?width=864&format=png&auto=webp&s=67f44e00941bfaef6521307638e842411d6a2562
Blackbirds are silly sods. They shout about the smallest thing and will go potty over perceived disaster. Wrens are similar. Got one in the garden at the moment doing endless alarm calls. It’s doing my head in.
Since they have recently fledged babies at this time of year it could be an elevated sense of anxiety about that. Usually baby blackbirds hop around idiotically, asking for food, and for a predator to sort them out.
I think most birds are generally either shouting “FUCK ME” or “DO YOU WANT TO FUCK ME” or “FUCK OFF”.
Reason for commotion: he’s a blackbird. It’s what they do.
Blackbird, very likely to have a young one nearby and sending out warnings to other birds
We have some that visit and the noise is ear splitting when the babies follow the parents into the garden
Cat nearby
Pretty sure it’s a female blackbird (yes they’re brown).
[Placeholder for a Twitter/X joke]
It’s probably saying:
“Oi mum, MUUUM!! There’s some random person in that window taking pictures of me!!”
With birds its usually one of the following.. ‘Do one’, ‘Do me’ or ‘danger will robinson, danger’.
Thats danger because its looking about frantically and tweeting loudly and quickly.
Some birds, like parrots..well.. mine learned distress calls of seagulls, the warning calls of two murders of crows and the calls of a nearby owl.
Some just like mischief.
ALAN! ALAN!.. STEVE?
That’s the *where are my fledglings at call*
We have a blackbird does this when the cats are out and about.
This is my favourite page on blackbird calls. You’ve got a really good recording of “chinking”.
https://therattlingcrow.blogspot.com/2013/11/blackbird-alarm-calls.html?m=1
Never more
Is there a cat about?
Serious attempt at guess-answering: from experience I’ve noticed other birds do something very similar if they can see a cat – alarm calling perhaps?
The blackbird family in our garden did this every time our cat went outside. Cat was most discombobulated and became agoraphobic.
I had a two birds in the garden going crazy like that for ages, when I went to investigate, they had a nest up in a tree, and there was a cat sleeping on the ground under the tree. I took the cat back to its own garden and the birds calmed down immediately.
He swallowed a smoke detector and the battery is low.
He swallowed a smoke detector and the battery is low.
According to the closed captions it is saying ‘goodnight. Goodnight’
Lost a chick and trying to find it
You need to move. It’s his house now.
You need to move. It’s his house now.
That’s a juvenile black bird. When the young black birds leave the nest the adults help them for a little while, showing how to forage for insects, pecking for worms and turning up leaves, things like that, basically getting them ready for the real world. After a little time though the parents will leave them to fend for themselves. It’s basically crying out for mum because it feels it’s not ready for the real world.
It’s an alarm/distraction noise used by Blackbirds when the magpies/cats visit. We hear that a lot in our garden when they’re nesting in our honeysuckle.
That’s a blackbird and it’s quite likely there’s a cat or predator around. That’s an alert sound off.
Blackbird, that’s an alarm call, not a mating call. Probably cats or magpies nearby.
Blackbird calling out a warning. Maybe it has a nest close by and there’s a cat on the prowl.
Birder here with a public service announcement: please don’t call us “twitchers”. That word has a specific meaning that doesn’t apply to everyone who likes looking at birds.
We will accept “birdwatcher”, “birder” or “sad, bird-obsessed loser”.
Thanks!
Blackbird alarm call
I have a blackbird who’s practically become a pet, she does this when I’m in my kitchen to get my attention to put food out.
https://preview.redd.it/68n10pmvs9df1.png?width=1344&format=png&auto=webp&s=5afe740b1f7ac3439ec85470463d0a217eea8d28
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