What time do the birds start chirping in your neck of the woods?

Too early. Between 4 and 5. Incredibly annoying, and that is with closed windows. Damned dinosaurs.

Upstate NY, out in the sticks, they start at 5 AM or so. The only light is over 2500 feet away so it’s really dark where I am. I would guess with more lights they might start earlier.

At dawn, similar to Adirondack’s neck of the woods. There are no artificial lights on probably within a circular area of 60 acres with my house at the center. A hazy glow from Albany to the NW but not very intrusive.

I’ll hear the occasional birds around 4–5 but they really start up around 7–8.

When I was in Belize there was a bird called the chachalaca it would “sing” every morning from exactly 6:30 till 7:10. Hands down the most annoying animal I’ve ever encountered.
I have no clue why the guy who made that video said it’s a cool sounding bird, clearly he’s never been woken by one.

NE Ohio, in a rural area. The birds start around 5AM. It’s a nice way to wake up.

Generally, around 4 AM.

It is the unattached birds that are calling all night and early in the mornings. It is the song of desperation to find a mate to meet, mate and procreate. lol

They start tweeting here a bit before dawn. Me, I don’t atart doing it on my phone till much later.

The song birds start at around 4 to 5 and I don’t mind them but there are very noisy seagulls that sometimes start up when it gets light and they can be a nuisance.

The coolest bird sounds have to go to the loons. They’re amazing. I don’t even care if they wake me up at 5 AM.

They start about 5am, and they have built a nest in the guttering above our bedroom. They are very loud.

@Headhurts That must be fun. :)

@Adirondackwannabe I’m not a morning person, so its very annoying.. But once I am awake, they do sound lovely.

@Headhurts You’re more tolerant than I am. I have a female cardinal and a red winged blackbird that insist on attacking their reflection in my sliding glass doors first thing in the morning. I’m thinking cat or shotgun.

About a half hour before dawn. No artificial light sources here. It always starts with the short, high squeaks of the ospreys, the big fishhawks. They are the first to get out, and my favorites. Before this are the occasional least nighthawks, a startled parrot or a toucan, and even a mockingbird. There is also a small, fast owl on this island and it can give quite a startling scream. These, and water lapping against the hull or the slap of a fishtail breaking the water’s surface now and then, are the night sounds here. No low rumble of traffic on a distant freeway, no neighbor’s voices, no cacophony of background TV or radio, no hum from the refridgerator, no whoosh and murmur from the central air . After about 10pm there are few human produced noises coming from the shore.

Location: Lazare’s dock, off Poonkie’s restaurant on Toucan Bay, about a mile and a half north of Portsmouth on the northwest coast of Dominica, Windwards, Lesser Antilles.

@Adirondackwannabe The birds you get woken up by are much more interesting than what I get!

@Adirondackwannabe Loons are, indeed, wonderful. One of many highlighted memory moments of my life was on a little deserted island in the Quetico Wilderness Region above Minnesota and on the US/Canada border. It was evening and the sun was setting in the West; the moon was rising in the East; and two loons were calling back and forth. No other sounds. Such a peaceful, joyful moment. and it helped that I was a little bit in love.

I don’t think we have enough birds to notice, anymore. There are a couple of blue jays that squawk when they think we’re getting too close to their nest, but that’s all.

We have a lot of birds around here and they start their day as soon as the sun starts to come up. It’s a bit later at the moment since we’re going into winter. In summer it’s about 4am. Except for the birds that go all night…

@Sunny2 @Headhurts I was asleep lakeside in Lake Placid and these loons start calling to each other. It was so beautiful and haunting. They kept it up for quite a while. Just an awesome way to wake up.

In the top end of Australia and really most all places they start as soon as it starts to get light. Except for the curlews, they go all night long! Have a listen!

@Adirondackwannabe Reminds me of another wake up call in a tent in Austria. A cuckoo clock woke me up. Waiting to find out how late it was, I counted. At 13, I realized it was a real cuckoo, not an Austrian clock.