Birds twittering now

[KittensWearingWoollyMittens]

I am in Northern England and for the last few days I have noticed that birds are tweeting at this time of night (2.50am) I thought birds only sang at dusk and dawn not in the middle of the night! Is anyone else experiencing this?

Yes, here too!

SE England. Here too - I’ve noticed it for the last few days. Is it the temperature? It’s been unseasonably warm this week.

I’ve noticed this for a few weeks now, I’m in Scotland. They’ve been out tweeting away since about midnight. I read somewhere that it means they are confused 🤔 what would they be confused about 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yes here as well in Scotland from about midnight and still going, it’s strange but pleasant to hear.

It is strange @Rhannion and it does unnerve me, I wondered if it was to do with climate change or something. It has been quite cold where I am @foxgoosefinch, between 2 and 5 degrees C

Also interesting it seems to be a UK nationwide thing

Not here in Manchester - very quiet outside.

Yes, heard them chirping at 2am here - east mids and currently 14 degrees!

Yes! I’ve noticed it for a week or so. It’s confusing as I hear them and think it must be getting on for 6am only to get up and discover it’s 3am!! (Like this morning!)

I imagine the temperature has a lot to do with it? East Mids, 13 degrees right now

Yes! Same here. I heard them when I went out for a late dog walk and I got so confused. What does it mean?

I’m wide awake and listening to the birds (I’m in Yorkshire). It’s very strange.

Yes yes yes. I have felt confused when taking stuff out to the bin late at night in London. Birdsong like it's dawn.

Birds sing at night.

Blackbirds

Robins

Nightingales

Few more too.

They're telling other birds to politely do one.

Also happening in Ireland, I can hear them chirping away now.

It's a thing, I've seen a few threads about it recently on here.

They can feel the mother ships arriving from deep orbit

I actually noticed this tonight at about 1am

@TheGrinchsDog

It did feel like a sci-fi film, was half expecting something scary to appear in the sky.

Wish I was asleep now anyway!

Scotland here, and there's a full-scale avian choir going on outside.

@lotusgirl909

Birds sing at night.

Blackbirds

Robins

Nightingales

Few more too.

They're telling other birds to politely do one.

But how come we haven't noticed it in the early hours before?

I dtarted noticing it a few weeks ago - central London.
thought I was going mad in that I didn't remember it in previous years.

as well as being milder, there's a lot less traffic - at one point I thought that maybe I'd not noticed before because of traffic

I thought the same thing earlier. We have one, i'm unsure what type of bird it is but it sounds like a nagging wife. Heard it tonight way after dark.

I have sometimes seen very active and twittering birds, in the trees that surround service station car parks, at all times in the middle of the night, because of all the lights being on.

Following to see if anyone can explain!

It's because of all the new security light systems etc that people are installing - it's knocking everything out of sync

Particularly when they are left on all night