Song and calls of the Blackbird

The familiar and beautiful mellow song of the blackbird that can be heard in any English garden, and some of the other calls that it males.

[@jennyd.3864]

Lovely Blackbirds. I love them so much, very beautiful beings.

[@Poetry4Peace]

🥰

[@madhatt3r93]

Two years ago we had a blackbird that would come to sit on our chimney and sing at exactly 6pm, i really liked him and named him Marcus ☺ i hope that wherever he is, hes doing well 🐦

[@marklewisham3088]

They usually come back to the same area, the male lives to about 25 years old.. Love them

[@oight]

awwww that's cute! i have a pair that live in my garden. the male one is not scared of me at all, rather the other way around with me making sure not to annoy him 😂 i put out some bird seed mix and suet, ocassionally some fruit or whatever - he just zooms out of the bushes and starts eating it when i'm right next to him... i try stay still cause i'm a bit scared as he fights off the wood pigeons and even the 2 magpies that live next door 😂 none of them even attempt to fight back hahaha, i just hope they'll stay safe for even more years here 🙂

[@WateryFire]

Oh that’s cute. Would you name him if he’d sing for you every morning at 4:30 as well? I haven’t named them (yes a whole gang) yet.

[@steffanjames1815]

@@oight I’m sure they will, right now « mine » are singing away, it just makes for a perfect evening

[@kris.mac.]

We have had the same pair live in a bush in our garden for four years now. They are extremely cute, especially the male who is also very friendly and curious. They are currently looking after their second lot of babies this season. Looking forward to having them here for many more years to come.

[@meganwhite9090]

I never realized how relaxing the sound of the Blackbird is until now, I'd like to think I'm quite a mellow person and where I live is absolutely flocked with Blackbirds, Sparrows, Magpies, Wood Pigeons, Pheasants, occasionally some birds of prey (We see them circling the crescent I like on at least once a year), Robins and more. And I sleep fantastically during Spring and Summer thanks to the call of our Virtuoso community of Blackbirds.

[@stephenbarker9062]

Megan White it

[@shyfreckles1]

I miss the calls of our once plenty pheasant. So few farmers have left the scrub/brushlines of the past, in their complete efficiency. I do have a plethora of other birds to enjoy, especially barn owls in old buildings, on the farm in the mid Willamette Valley of Oregon. For decades we have aided a local farmers Co op of collecting owl pellets for a school program . 🌞

[@crisusf25]

I love the sound of Blackbirds amazingly beautiful 🥰😍💕💖♥️❤️💜💛🧡💙💚🌷💕💖💗

[@elissasaliba6848]

This is beautiful and peaceful i just love to hear the blackbird all the time

[@mh605]

Thanks for this. Such a beautiful bird and a beautiful call.

[@AnitaGrace]

Woke up to the sound of a Blackbird call this morning. Stayed in bed until the bird flew away. Beautiful call.

[@EphemeralProductions]

Love their little “barkish “ noise. It is funny! I really do like it.

[@vole12]

Beautiful handsome birds . Can't believe there lots of people who don't even notice them never mind tell the difference .

[@twinrg]

Simple and virtuously immaculate creatures. Bravo!!!🐤🐥🐤

[@tokega]

This is the sound of summer for me...

[@MauriceBaker100]

Absolutely, especially when you hear a male singing on a late summer evening.

[@ilincutaalex6029]

tokega The sound of springtime!

[@mrsspanner14]

Sounds like a summer's evening in my garden, thank you so much for posting these. Beautiful. :-)

[@Bluemoon_19]

I go to work at 5.40am and at the moment when i open the door the sound is amazing, I can hear so many birds singing. The blackbird that calls our garden home sits atop of our flag pole for most of the morning singing away.

[@daftirishmarej1827]

I'm jealous! I used to get the morning chorus, but now I live near the sea.i have to go inland to hear this beautiful music. Living by the sea isn't all it's cracked up to be! Silence is good, but my heart lifts whenever I heard the song of blackbird. My friends look at me strange when I say "hello Mr. Black"!!

[@rickjt62]

We have our much-loved resident blackbird who steals the hedgehog food. He’s very talkative, especially around 4.30am ... fab to wake up to

[@valeriejohnston2886]

We have a black bird who is retuning for the third year. He comes to the kitchen window and when it is open comes in and helps himself from an open currant bag. He often sings to us when he has finished eating and shows no fear and makes eye contact. This year he appears not to have young as in other years he took a break full of raisins and kept returning several times a day. He really has bonded with my sister and l am sure knows her.

[@sunandakerkar4480]

Thanks for your nice video God bless you with lots of love and happiness

[@jamesoneill2556]

Great video. I loved seeing the chick being fed. I've spent a small fortune so far this year on mealworms for them to feed their chicks with which I give to them by hand at my kitchen window. It's so relaxing to do that, the complete opposite of stress.

[@MauriceBaker100]

Thank you James, I also spend a small fortune on live mealworms. I get through as much as two kilograms a week when the birds have young ones to feed, but they are worth it for the pleasure they give me.

[@ianobrien2180]

Love the blackbirds....especially just before the light fades on cool crisp evenings....😊

[@SendPeaches]

I feed a male blackbird in my garden cat food every so often and he comes right up to me making the sounds at 0:52 non stop! Very handsome little laddy

[@lilwen4063]

Love it anytime of the day! Delightful!

[@birdlover7690]

Stunning tune love Blackies

[@Tig229]

Thank you so much for video Maurice! Absolutely wonderful! Blackbirds mean the world to me and this video is beautiful- thank you!!

[@Military872]

Beautiful Video, love watching the Blackbirds, they are interesting to watch.

[@GreyDancer42]

Beautiful! I miss the bird song of the UK so much.

[@Pythonaria]

One was singing here until about 20 mins ago. It's now dark so the birds have gone to roost. He'll start up again around 5am or earlier. Guaranteed to have my cats jumping up at the window. Don't worry. The birds are safe. All my cats are indoor cats only. I love the sound of the dawn chorus led by the lovely Blackbird. Same goes for the evensong. So relaxing.

[@VOMITK0]

The common bird songs you'd hear in new Zealand awesome

[@marilynrodger1763]

My favourite native bird. Beautiful song makes me smile ☺️

[@MillMoll]

I love the song of a blackbird, its so relaxing

[@gillhough5118]

Love this video the blackbird is my favourite bird.

[@hotwheelscollector1294]

I love blackbirds they are so lovely

[@andycam4645]

Thank you so much! I have blackbird couples in rare public garden space in Central London and leave food on my third floor 'escarpment' for them...I love watching mothers and fathers on their reconaissance missions, as they land on aspects of the high buildings here, and the de-coding of communication de-coded is an 'ear opener'...

[@pauljameskenney2955]

I have quite a tame one in garden that follows me about when digging for easy pickings - sweet

[@MauriceBaker100]

Thanks Marsia, yes I love to hear the blackbird singing, I think it has the best song of all our songbirds.

[@Elissaoui]

Maurice Baker thank you sir for allyour workyou are a birds lover

[@BeeLZBeeb]

One of my favourite sounds, along with wood pigeons

[@markrogers6090]

Beautiful. Here on the south coast of Victoria, Australia the same species of Blackbird sings at dawn and at dusk.You can hear the male and the female echoing back and forth as if to welcome the sun each morning and to farewell the daylight. A delight.

[@MauriceBaker100]

Thank you Mark, yes it does have a beautiful song. I was just reading about the introduction of the European Blackbird in the 1860s and how well it has established itself in South Australia and Tasmania.

[@markrogers6090]

I can see that you are earlier than me Maurice! I am listening to the dulcet tones of the little fellow right now.

[@Ammiel7]

I cant hear the female calling only the male he is alone no other bird with him

[@maeterith1984]

I love the song of this bird

[@asseyez-vous6492]

Excellent video! Thank you 😊

[@brendandax]

I've seen blackbirds being called "bully birds". They're often lumped in with starlings. I don't find them the bullying type at all. My blackbird visitors are far from it, they don't scare away any other species. In fact I've often seen them side by side with a robin in my garden.

[@izzyflint2255]

Love this noise 😍 xxxxxxx from Izzy 😘😘😘😘😘😘😍

[@robertgoldthorpe1652]

Brilliant Maurice, thanks for the upload 👍

[@johnotooledoggames2336]

🇮🇪 very good upload

[@antoanetamarinova764]

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[@freditona6791]

RELAXING BIRDSONGS

[@AlisonBryen]

This is definitely my favourite birdsong.

[@hectorstable]

I live in the countryside and as I type I can hear a dozen different birds. One of them has a very distinct call which I keep noticing, and it sounds like the title lyrics to the song 'Morning has broken' by Cat Stevens. Googling it now, to find if that was the inspiration, I find this video, and also that the word blackbird is in the second line of the song. I'm sure this is widely known, but it's news to me, having not really heard much birdsong until my recent move out to the countryside.

[@annarawlins6057]

Using this to lure out a blackbird that's stuck in our house, he's replying to it!

[@MauriceBaker100]

I hope it works. Maurice

[@Poetry4Peace]

Wjat happened

[@marsiabealby982]

Thank you for the nice video. Needless to mention, I love blackbirds to bits.

[@APH1991]

Nature's best alarm clocks.

[@grammargrub]

Great videos. Now I know what those different calls are in my garden! Thanks very much.

[@Poetry4Peace]

I love it..

[@tracieb4085]

Love listening to the Blackbird

[@dangerousdazza]

I like the sound but not at 4am in the morning lol

[@leonrussoniello5656]

I like the sound night and day.

[@aaaBbb-cr9xj]

Use earplugs or butt plugs

[@ibm3302]

I rather have this than magpies

[@Military872]

BOO HOO

[@ericsimon8386]

My first masterclass teacher was Mister McCartney himself, because at that adolescent time I had the Double White, and of course I learnt to play the song on the guitar. Now many years later ("...will you still send me a Va-len-tine ?" !) I never miss a chance to stop and listen to them, wherever I am.

[@grammargrub]

Eric Simon Yes a lovely song. But I always wondered about the first line. Do blackbirds sing in the dead of night?!?

[@paulenzor6993]

Excellent video!!!!

[@adrian.debeauvais5911]

Maurice bravo love your ornithological little cameos. My favourite is the common blackbird as it is so easily discernible. Turdus merula merula its linnean definition. I love this bird as it reminds me of long nights spent hoeing the flower beds and a rather cheeky brave male blackbird used to come and see if I had in covered an earth worm a late supper treat for him. I also think of my late mother watching on supervising the work in her beloved garden, smiling and looking at me as the blackbird came foraging. Happy memories of her and my old home alas now gone like dear mum. Golden memories to treasure. Thanks Maurice and keep on producing these delightful videos.

[@judgementravijudgementravi9930]

Black bird ez nt average da popular Name of 👍👌👈😍

[@merveilleuxetmagique]

Thank you very much, I had your vid in my playlist for birdsongs, listened to it, but until today, I've never viewed it! And I found funny how (at 2:03) the "baby" bird fed by his mother, seems fatter than her!!

[@9lettere668]

beautiful

[@nadenevanstaden7360]

Out of sll the birds tbese are my best.

[@rosaliekramer7890]

A blackbird sings that spring begins...

[@Perryscope123]

When I hear their distress call I am on the look for cats prowling around. One time I saw one in our garden trying to climb up our trellis early in the morning so I lobbed a shoe in it's direction (No harm inflicted) Cat ran off, Blackbirds then calmed down so I went back to sleep

[@iniquity123]

I do the same when hearing their distress call. Always a cat....

[@allinwith2sChip]

“I lobbed a shoe at it!!”

[@annac1397]

Fantastic video,been wondering who's been making this lovely sound in a morning and evening at the back of my flat :)

[@katolyn4200]

Thank you for showing us

[@Yaarbiriah]

excellent!

[@MauriceBaker100]

+Gila Atwood Thank you Gila I"m glad that you enjoyed the video.

[@owenlibby1067]

blackbird singing in the dead of night

[@allinwith2sChip]

Or the evening! kzbin.info/www/bejne/p6HOm5mNZs6km6c

[@harpalkaur4512]

What a great video, thanks for sharing. Blackbirds are so cute.

[@laela1247]

wonderful!!!

[@Mirjana633]

Splendid, pearl!

[@jalalmaitre2106]

I like this. Thanks

[@ingridakkermans9074]

Love de black burds love it thanks jou ingrid akkermans

[@Perryscope123]

Magical birds thanks for posting

[@scizorex6802]

I've adopted a little baby blackbird, and I play this whenever he gets restless. I called him or her Gavin

[@TheSwaralam]

Amazing sounds 😍

[@crimson6031]

I have a baby blackbird and so I’m trying to feed it now lol

[@absolutelynot6086]

Blackbird is best bird

[@flashlitestriker4028]

Lovely!

[@gusteffan]

Thanks for Sharing, and very useful indeed as I'm using the audio to play to a nestling we had to rescue after their nest was discovered and destroyed by a magpie, we hard the commotion but we got to the nest to late for his 4 sibling, but at least the smallest one is doing well now, he only survived the raid as he was pushed to the bottom of the nest by his bigger siblings who thought it was food coming. Finding enough worms, which blackbirds seems to find easy, is giving us bigger problems, we're not worried by the 20-30 minutes feeding routine, oher than that everything seems to be going fine, fingers crossed...

[@tpsflix]

Hope that little nestling survived and is well!

[@steffanjames1815]

@@tpsflix yes, he did, very happy to say. He grew, and is near, and never far from us.

[@tpsflix]

@@steffanjames1815 oh my goodness, grinning here in Amsterdam at the good news, while sitting on my own balcony being serenaded by blackbirds :)

[@tpsflix]

(They receive "payment" by enjoying my strawberries)

[@steffanjames1815]

@@tpsflix tonight I’m still being sérénaded but my friend, it’s absolutely lovely, I wish you could hear also

[@mukuzabethjenner]

Waow thank you it was so useful !!!

[@birdconsulting9859]

thanks!

[@deslynnsporne8684]

The blackbird has a beautiful call.🐦💞❤☺🇦🇺🇬🇧

[@MauriceBaker100]

Yes the blackbird is a top singer.

[@AnttiRasi]

I played this to a blackbird in your yard. It immediately made itself bigger, went to more protective spot and even after a while run from hiding spot to another where as before I played this, it was calmly wondering around. I wonder what was the bird saying in the video! :)

[@hottycbr]

Wonderful informative video, thank you :)

[@evilstepmummy]

I miss the song of the blackbird in the summer. I live in Nova Scotia now but I do get to hear the haunting sound of the loon across the lake in the evening

[@MauriceBaker100]

Thank you Helen for watching and your comments. Spring is making a hesitant start here and the blackbirds are also starting to sing in the evenings now,

[@kjo78]

I just played this video to a blackbird in the tree at the end of the garden, I'm sure it was mimicking back?!

[@intestinalworm1202]

Beautiful bird song! Love blackbirds, but out here in Australia they are an introduced pest! They are much less of a problem than starlings, Indian Mynah birds, sparrows and a host of other birds, plants and animals that often threaten the survival of native species. Still, I do love the sound(s) of the blackbird, especially in the evening!!! Blackbird singing in the dead of night...

[@soph4syth]

awesome

[@Retro_andy_1977]

This is such a beautiful video.I absolutely adore it.I never realised til now it was the blackbird who made that particular call.I hear it most on a morning and evening

[@jasfiona]

Lovely stuff. Thanks Maurice

[@MauriceBaker100]

Thank you Jasfiona for commenting.

[@andrewjohnhead]

Blackbird visitor has been 'tzeee-ing' in the garden for last two weeks while I've been reading D.W. Snow's, 'A Study of Blackbirds'. Good read.

[@ingridakkermans9074]

ik hou van merels ze kunnun zo mooi zingen voor al nu geniet er van ingrid akkermans

[@MauriceBaker100]

Bedankt Ingrid voor uw vriendelijke reacties

[@BLAQTACH]

This bird comes to my yard every night at 00:00, same spot every night, for about 10 to 20 minutes... 🙆🏿‍♂️🙆🏿‍♂️🙆🏿‍♂️

[@Zincwolf]

I have blackbirds nesting in my guttering/roof. I hear this all the time :D

[@MauriceBaker100]

+Zincwolf I hope that they don't start singing too early in the mornings.

[@Zincwolf]

Their babies are always calling for food and stuff. You kind of get used to it, haha. The scratching from them moving around its kind of creepy at night though. Wish I could see them. Bet they're adorable

[@TheSwaralam]

Nice sounds 😍

[@martaakh8105]

❤️👍

[@guts8684]

i was looking for this so i could befriend the blackbird that lives in my hedge

[@tanjakemmer1391]

Geiler Gesang

[@cupcakecaper334]

Thanks, that was a great video. I have a question. Our situation is that the people that live next to me brought a baby blackbird to us that was too young to be out of the nest and there was a string of hot days ahead (around 40 degrees celcius) and plenty of predators about. We re-hydrated and fed it, but as here in Australia blackbirds are considered pests and can't be released, the only legal options we had were to either have the bird destroyed or to keep it ourselves, so we're now raising it. We've had it for about 5 days now and it's now a fledgling. Today it's started to try to make difference vocalisations to me other than just the standard baby bird noises. It almost sounded like it trying to very quietly sing. As it only has its baby feathers, will I be able to sex it by its vocal calls before it gets adult feathering?

[@MauriceBaker100]

+Sam S (CupcakeCaper) Hi Sam, at that young an age there is no easy way that I know of to tell the sex of your young blackbird. In the later stages as a juvenile you may be able to notice that the male has a darker appearance that a female and can look remarkably like an adult female. There is not really any visual, behavioural or vocal differences at this early stage , it looks as if you will have to weight until its first moult in the autumn.

[@rachelhybrid632]

lovely

[@MauriceBaker100]

Thank you Rachel for commenting.

[@rachelhybrid632]

+Maurice Baker your welcome Maurice. the best sound in the world .

[@tonynewman8586]

Incredible how they can sometimes live up to 200 years old & some can even change there species ie it’s not uncommon to see a black bird 🦅 in its 50th year change into a swan 🦢/ it’s a incredible bird

[@MisterMajister]

I've even seen one change into an elk as young as 35 years.

[@MarieNightAndDay]

I put it in my garden and the birds come to answer ❤️❤️