birds wakening from the shortest night...

["stoatwizard" stoatwizard]

Recorded these in my suburban backyard - the song of the birds after 
the shortest night. I picked out this 2 min section - I like the 
musicality of the blackbirds against the harshness of the gulls, and 
finished with the first sparrow's chirp at 4:10am

http://www.suffolkbirds.co.uk/audio/T443lr_trimf.mp3

The advantage of midsummer is that now the dawn is earlier than the 
excess of traffic rumble from the ring-road 1/4 mile away, and we still 
have the remnants of a ban on night flights - the first aircraft drone 
begins a little after 5:30 most days :)

I seem to recall there was a collection of dawn birdsong from earlier 
in the year associated with this group a few years back, but I haven't 
heard anything like that lately. Wonder what happened to it...