Nightingales...How Romantic!

[julesapple]

I don't recall ever hearing Nightingales singing before, and I'm almost 45.

So, this evening, I was utterly gobsmacked to hear them in the trees at Sainsbury's car park. I've doubled-checked on Youtube, and it was definitely Nightingales.

Very romantic, even if it was a supermarket car park!

Jules

[Jeanied]

How fabulous Julesapple - I haven't heard them since I was a girl which is quite some considerable time ago!

[Suky]

We have at least one in the small wood by the Sainsburys where I work too. I thought at first it was a blackbird getting carried away but like you I found a recording and wow! As good as the day we were walking over West Wittering sands one hot summer and saw and heard skylarks. To quote Louis Armstrong, what a wonderful world

[Patchninja]

It's the most beautiful sound. We occasionally have one singing in the garden.

[rana]

It is good to know that there are now overwintering populations of these birds as they are normally migrants from Africa and Southern Europe and don't normally arrive in England until mid spring. What is astonishing about the song is the variety and intensity of the phrases. I have heard competing males sing for hours on end.

[Hilary B]

They are lovely when you don't hear them often. A friend of mine has been known to get fed up with them, because they really do sing all night long, and in summer, with windows open because of the heat, that keeps him awake..... (this is in Portugal, where he hopes to go for the warmer half of the year).