Sit back, relax, and enjoy the sounds of the dawn chorus. What can you hear?

0:30​–1:00​ Whitethroat: this is a really scratchy song, not one you’re likely to hear in your garden, but listen out for them singing from hedgerows and areas of scrub near reedbeds.

1:00​ – Distant curlew: a beautiful bubbling call that’s sadly disappearing from our countryside.

0:32​–1:11​ – Nightingale singing from scrub: probably one of the most iconic bird songs in the UK! The males sing at night to attract migrating females, but then will also sing during the day.

2:00​–4:00​ – Sedge warbler first then cuckoo starts. The sedge warbler has a really messy song, all pips and peeps and scratchiness that doesn’t seem to have any pattern at all! The cuckoo couldn’t be more different: plain, sonorous and unmistakable.

2:21​ – Curlew call: If you hear a curlew calling, look up and see if you can see one performing their soaring display flight as they call.

2:40​ – Wood warbler: often described as a spinning coin, it’s a really unusual song that accelerates into an enthusiastic, high-speed pipping that’s very distinctive.

3:00​ – Goldcrest: these tiny birds can be challenging to see as they spend a lot of their time in the tree tops. The song is high pitched and can be harder to hear as you grow older.

3:20​ Common cranes: cranes were extinct as a breeding species in the UK between the late 1600s and 1982, and there are still only around 200 breeding pairs. Their amazing booming calls can be heard up to three miles away!

4:08​– Willow warbler: a classic sound of spring. Willow warblers can be tricky to tell apart from other warblers, but there’s no mistaking their loud, descending song.

5:04​ – Wood warbler: more of the spinning coin song. Did you know that wood warblers are a red-list bird and prefer upland oak woods?

5:44​ – More Wood Warbler

6:04​ – Redstart: this short song can be hard to distinguish from other woodland birds (particularly when they’re all singing at once!). But the male redstart is very distinctive to look at with his bright orange tail and chest.

7:18​ – Great tit calling: a little short burst of the classic ‘teacher teacher’ call.

7:22​ – Tree pipit: another woodland bird, the tree pipit’s song is rather like that of the much-more common chaffinch, but just the start, before it moves into little ‘peeps’ and ‘zee-us’.

7:26​ – Tree pipit: all our pipit species do what’s called a ‘parachute’ or ‘balloon’ display flight, where they go up high and then float down slowly on open wings. Look out for tree pipits doing this over the tree tops.

8:23​ – Here’s the curlew again. Also listen out for the redpoll, it’s the funny brief trill call. Redpolls are an upland woodland species, but they do also visit garden feeders.

8:58​ – Chaffinch ‘pinking’: many birds, like the chaffinch, have both a song and a call. This is the chaffinch call, which is much simpler than its song, and is used to keep in contact with other birds.