thank s for this charming song. Do people ever see them sing? Once in the UK i heard one in Drumnadrochit and Yorkshire. Now i wish i had wakened my 2 daughters so they could have heard it. We here in New Mexico occasionally have a stray mockingbird who both appears and sings similarly but mainly they are east of us.. La., Miss., ala., etc.Also the mockingbirds will sing at night sometimes. Delightful creatures
Just the one song, for generations after generations, a million years in perfecting, now all the rest of you warblers on you tube can just go home. :) Sublime, close your eyes.
Nick: I LOVE nightingale song, grow up listening to it. This is 100% amale nightingale singing, and You did an super execellent job of recording it without spooking this beauty.
You mademy day. Thank you so very much for posting, Please post more
It's possible that it was a nightingale, but not highly likely, I'm afraid. They stopped singing for this year about a week ago in this part of Northamptonshire, and I'd have thought you would have heard it before now. It's more likely a songthrush. There should be soundclips of one here on Youtbe.
I think this is what I was listening to in the early hours this morning. I hear blackbirds a lot around here and they're beautiful, but when this started up it was so unearthly and loud I had to get up and throw open my window to listen! I live in a pretty green bit of Ealing so I guess a nightingale is a good guess for mid-June?
Dreaming In the still, pitch dark of nightime, with a star-less, moonless sky Where not even light pollution penetrates the overhead abyss I’m transported to another time and the sun should shine it seems An ethereal sound comes to my ears and invades my silent dreams. The sound now grows, and, wave on wave beautiful bird songs sail I’m now awake and listening to The Wondrous Nightingale. I wrote this after being waken in the middle of the night......so beautiful
We heard our first nightingale in the grounds of a country hotel in Tenterden, Kent last night, it was singing just like this at about midnight in tree that was lit by streetlighting - an absolute joy to hear!
In an urban setting It was most likely a robin, or possibly a songthrush. Beautiful singers both. The nightingales usually arrive here in Northamptonshire in the third week of April, and they nest in thicketsor inpenetrable scrub in woods and parkland.
A bird sang its beautiful little heart out all night, outside my London window. I played this to check if it was a Nightingale and I'm now pretty sure it was!
I never realized that I had been hearing nightingales when I was in Europe. I just thought they were mockingbirds since the ones back home in the US make a lot of similar sounds. Of course, the mockingbird in my yard also imitates a ringing phone, which isn't quite so nice to listen to. :p
Beautiful, melodic and soothing. It's difficult to find Nightingales now. Every spring in the 1930's a lady in southern England played a musical instrument to the accompaniment of a singing Nightingale.
That is just gorgeous! But must have been really early in the morning since he's the only one singing. Other birds were probably like "shut up we're trying to sleep here!"
How Keats wept as he saw the utter sadness and misery of life-listening to this little songbird-reaching across the centuries..read his Ode to a Nightingale-a tribute to this delicate miracle which manages to survive despite the wreck of modern life....and remind us of higher beauty...and gentler world
We barely have any songbirds anymore where I live because the stupid feral cats around here keep eating them all... the only thing I've heard in a LONG time is the mockingbird (one near my house sometimes imitates a car alarm! X3). And while those are amusing to listen to, I do miss the real thing... Thanks for posting this! ^^
There ARE Nightengales in the U.S. all over actually. I've heard their songs many many times. One sings about 60metres beyond my window every night. Not constantly, but now and again throughout the night. They sing in daytime as well just not as noticeable with all the other birds.
I needed to do a little research on this bird for my current work in progress, and this turned out to be perfect!! Thank you so much for posting it --- how beautiful.
Thank you so much, Nick, for sharing this fabulous recording. The last time I heard (and saw) a nightingale for real and singing like this was in Wiltshire in late April 2007. He was in a bush barely 20m away, and wasn't worried about our proximity at all.
I haven't been able to get back to England in spring since then, so recordings and videos such as these, that bring the English spring to us expats, are highly welcome.
Hey AliBryan, I just wanted to tell you that my heart reaches out to you from reading your post. Please believe me, there is hope, God loves you, He always has, He has a plan for your life. Just ask Him into your heart, accept His Son Jesus, and you will be made whole... mind, soul AND body! He can heal you from HIV, as He has healed many from it already! I am praying for you tonight.
I was diaganosed with hiv only few weeks ago,, since then, everyday is a misery and every night sleepless. Looked for information on the internet, but found despair. Somehow, came acoss this video,, Made Me Feel Alive, though for a lille while. But thanks nickpenny for sharin it with us.
Lo, the Nightingale of Paradise singeth upon the twigs of the Tree of Eternity, with holy and sweet melodies, proclaiming to the sincere ones the glad tidings of the nearness of God, calling the believers in the Divine Unity to the court of the Presence of the Generous One, informing the severed ones of the message which hath been revealed by God, the King, the Glorious, the Peerless, guiding the lovers to the seat of sanctity and to this resplendent Beauty.
@alibryan20 Hi, I know how hard that can be, but I hope you are feeling better and more positive about life. Hopefully you have access to medication and you know with that, you can live as fully and as happy a life as anyone. Take this as a sign to really enjoy living and do all the things you've always wished you could. I wish you all the best.
I was listening to this while analyzing the proposal scenes in Jane Eyre. It helped me a great deal, especially when it comes to getting the mood from the different scenes right.
I am performing Debussy's "En sourdine" in my Senior Vocal Performance Recital. This video has helped me tremendously! The piece begins with a series of repeated notes in the accompaniment then descend in pitch exactly the way these birds are singing. Thank you for posting this, I can now hear their beautiful song while I sing Verlaine's exquisite poetry.
Thanks for posting this wonderful bird song. I needed to do a little research on nightingales and this is a fine recording of their song. Now I need to seek out the real thing.
I was out walking my dog in the countryside early evening and I heard what I thought was a nightingale. This has just confirmed that it was. What a beautiful song. Thank you.
Thanks for posting this. A few weeks ago I realized that we had a bird singing in my backyard all night. I guessed that it must be a nightingale but wasn't sure. Now I am. Gosh I love the internet. :o)
Thank you so much-I want to play this as we read Hans Christian Andersen's "The Nightingale" to my Milwaukee 6th graders. May God Bless You Abundantly!
Absolutely beautiful. I heard one just like that from just a few feet away, two summers ago at the Arlington reservoir East Sussex; I didn't see it though as it was well hidden.
How lovely! I've always wondered what a Nightingale sounds like (and living in the Midlands I was never likely to find out). Thank you for sharing this.
Nick, I am playing it on my laptop in Colliers Wood, South West London- and there's some bird trying to answer, peeping away- I don't know if the other one is a nightingale. Thanks for this lovely clip. I will learn its call and try to listen for them around here- doubtful! But I hope. Thank you
For the last two days I woke up to the sound of a nightingale. I checked on Google for the songs of this bird, and found it. It is so very beautiful to listen to this, in my own backyard at the Meditteranean Seaside. I often wonder why people wear earphones and listen to the radio, while they are outdoors, when the most beautiful concerts come from nature. I actually placed this on my desktop, and listen to it whenever I feel a bit downcast. Wake up and listen!
Glad they've arrived for you. They should be here in this part of the UK by about April 18th. In case anyone wants to follow their progress, and the development of their song, I'm keeping an audio diary of local birdsong on my website (address in the information to the right of the image above).
Absolutely fabulous and thanks for sharing - last and only time I heard a Nightingale was just after WWII and in of all places Berkley Square London - honest :-0
listen very carefully at 2.22 those 9 tones very gradually decreasing in pitch ,no other british bird does this,you might have to wait 15 minuets or so , but it always comes,then you know you have been listening to a nightingale.
thank s for this charming song. Do people ever see them sing? Once in the UK i heard one in Drumnadrochit and Yorkshire. Now i wish i had wakened my 2 daughters so they could have heard it. We here in New Mexico occasionally have a stray mockingbird who both appears and sings similarly but mainly they are east of us.. La., Miss., ala., etc.Also the mockingbirds will sing at night sometimes. Delightful creatures
kestrelmuse 1 week ago
They're some of the coolest animals on earth
Reimskyllet9232 3 weeks ago
Nightingales usually sing near my home in evenings of spring, thats the most beautiful and peaceful sound in nature..
RatmenKamikadze 1 month ago
I was looking for military stuff and this stupid bird stuff came up!
jjcmark1 1 month ago
I didnt want it to end =(
BlinkinFirefly 1 month ago
Just the one song, for generations after generations, a million years in perfecting, now all the rest of you warblers on you tube can just go home. :) Sublime, close your eyes.
tigerscriber 1 month ago
...how did I end up here...? Oh yeah, Skyrim. Haha.
GrimRogue2 2 months ago
Analyzing Romantic poetry about the nightingale's song is a lot easier when you can listen to it for yourself. Thank you for uploading this :)
TL0610 2 months ago
Nick: I LOVE nightingale song, grow up listening to it. This is 100% amale nightingale singing, and You did an super execellent job of recording it without spooking this beauty.
You mademy day. Thank you so very much for posting, Please post more
.\best;;Hunter
Hunter7509 3 months ago
nature creates the most beautiful music of all
glennirish 3 months ago
THE KING
TheFLORJON1 6 months ago
It's possible that it was a nightingale, but not highly likely, I'm afraid. They stopped singing for this year about a week ago in this part of Northamptonshire, and I'd have thought you would have heard it before now. It's more likely a songthrush. There should be soundclips of one here on Youtbe.
But, as I said, it's not impossible!
Nick
nickpenny 8 months ago
@nickpenny Noup that's definitely a nightingale :)
sahaja75 2 months ago
2:20 to 2:30 that could be done only by nightingale. That's their favorite part !
sahaja75 2 months ago
I think this is what I was listening to in the early hours this morning. I hear blackbirds a lot around here and they're beautiful, but when this started up it was so unearthly and loud I had to get up and throw open my window to listen! I live in a pretty green bit of Ealing so I guess a nightingale is a good guess for mid-June?
KataAnimata 8 months ago
I meant, it's midnight! with exclamation not question..
Fluffabunny1 8 months ago
I hear this right now outside! It's midnight?
Fluffabunny1 8 months ago
NIGHTINGALE IN AMSTERDAM - СЛАВУЈ У АМСТЕРДАМУ
LATELIERDELALIBERTE 8 months ago
8 dislikes ? They need to see the doctor .
teessid 9 months ago
@teessid probably some fat MTV burgerboys ;)
Aleque 9 months ago
@Aleque
yeahh u rigth ^^
teessid 9 months ago
Nice one Nick
alankingwell 9 months ago
I recognise one or two csr alarms in there. Still a very beautiful song, though.
JFredUK 9 months ago
tottiemaude1 9 months ago
Got one singing in my garden right now, 2300hrs on the 23rd of April in Staplehurst, Kent!
SIMMO9523 10 months ago
We heard our first nightingale in the grounds of a country hotel in Tenterden, Kent last night, it was singing just like this at about midnight in tree that was lit by streetlighting - an absolute joy to hear!
JanineOfArc67 11 months ago
In an urban setting It was most likely a robin, or possibly a songthrush. Beautiful singers both. The nightingales usually arrive here in Northamptonshire in the third week of April, and they nest in thicketsor inpenetrable scrub in woods and parkland.
Nick
nickpenny 11 months ago
A bird sang its beautiful little heart out all night, outside my London window. I played this to check if it was a Nightingale and I'm now pretty sure it was!
Ova40 11 months ago
I never realized that I had been hearing nightingales when I was in Europe. I just thought they were mockingbirds since the ones back home in the US make a lot of similar sounds. Of course, the mockingbird in my yard also imitates a ringing phone, which isn't quite so nice to listen to. :p
drachensprecher 11 months ago
You can buy them as pets if you really want to listen to them.
wizfriz 11 months ago
Beautiful, melodic and soothing. It's difficult to find Nightingales now. Every spring in the 1930's a lady in southern England played a musical instrument to the accompaniment of a singing Nightingale.
JMc4Carthy 1 year ago
"She has form that cannot be denied..."
paintr63 1 year ago
This is simply beautiful an so peaceful to listen to
cecily745 1 year ago
Amazing bird!
tothgabor100 1 year ago
I may be wrong, but it seems clear now that bird calls are the direct cause of morning glories.
whatsacone 1 year ago
That is just gorgeous! But must have been really early in the morning since he's the only one singing. Other birds were probably like "shut up we're trying to sleep here!"
Attilaakiraly 1 year ago
How Keats wept as he saw the utter sadness and misery of life-listening to this little songbird-reaching across the centuries..read his Ode to a Nightingale-a tribute to this delicate miracle which manages to survive despite the wreck of modern life....and remind us of higher beauty...and gentler world
ratherfam 1 year ago
We barely have any songbirds anymore where I live because the stupid feral cats around here keep eating them all... the only thing I've heard in a LONG time is the mockingbird (one near my house sometimes imitates a car alarm! X3). And while those are amusing to listen to, I do miss the real thing... Thanks for posting this! ^^
toomanyobsessions 1 year ago
One of the reasons I can or could never leave England is this song.Well done Nick.
Nostrinian 1 year ago
I would like to buy a copy but have been trying for 5 hours now and am about to give up! Please help
nightingalable 1 year ago
Schitterend en zelden zo mooi te horen!
pierrehenriette 1 year ago
There ARE Nightengales in the U.S. all over actually. I've heard their songs many many times. One sings about 60metres beyond my window every night. Not constantly, but now and again throughout the night. They sing in daytime as well just not as noticeable with all the other birds.
xavierspade666 1 year ago
As far as I know there are no nightingales in the US, and no mockingbirds in Europe. But you're right that some of the song sounds similar.
nickpenny 1 year ago
are you sure this isn't a single male mockinbird. Listen to all the different sounds he is imitating.
jfkreutter 1 year ago
I needed to do a little research on this bird for my current work in progress, and this turned out to be perfect!! Thank you so much for posting it --- how beautiful.
ananmaya 1 year ago
Beautiful!
FroofJeffers 1 year ago
No offence taken - you're entitled to your opinion.
Nick
nickpenny 1 year ago
These birds are what everyones so worked up about, their loud and anoying. Why would anyone want to listen to them?
No offense to nickpeny, or any bird lovers…
fmafan627 1 year ago
lol my bird loves listening to this video
Americangirlmec 1 year ago
Thanks for posting this wonderful bird song
nhl2 1 year ago
Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days, by emperor and clown;
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when sick for home
She stood in tears amidst the alien corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charmed magic casements opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn.
RookhKshatriya 1 year ago 2
Thank you so much, Nick, for sharing this fabulous recording. The last time I heard (and saw) a nightingale for real and singing like this was in Wiltshire in late April 2007. He was in a bush barely 20m away, and wasn't worried about our proximity at all.
I haven't been able to get back to England in spring since then, so recordings and videos such as these, that bring the English spring to us expats, are highly welcome.
Barry Keywood
Abu Dhabi
Bazzabear1 1 year ago
it's very very beautiful man!
nugroho - indonesia
nugroho351 1 year ago
So, dann dürfte es in den nächsten Tagen wieder los gehen. Ich freue mich darauf, muss nur mein Fenster nachts öffnen, um sie zu hören.
Erdbeerkaba 1 year ago
it owns
C42D 1 year ago
This is a beautiful recording...thanks for posting!
annie5591 1 year ago
Hey AliBryan, I just wanted to tell you that my heart reaches out to you from reading your post. Please believe me, there is hope, God loves you, He always has, He has a plan for your life. Just ask Him into your heart, accept His Son Jesus, and you will be made whole... mind, soul AND body! He can heal you from HIV, as He has healed many from it already! I am praying for you tonight.
cc262fk 1 year ago
I was diaganosed with hiv only few weeks ago,, since then, everyday is a misery and every night sleepless. Looked for information on the internet, but found despair. Somehow, came acoss this video,, Made Me Feel Alive, though for a lille while. But thanks nickpenny for sharin it with us.
alibryan20 2 years ago
Lo, the Nightingale of Paradise singeth upon the twigs of the Tree of Eternity, with holy and sweet melodies, proclaiming to the sincere ones the glad tidings of the nearness of God, calling the believers in the Divine Unity to the court of the Presence of the Generous One, informing the severed ones of the message which hath been revealed by God, the King, the Glorious, the Peerless, guiding the lovers to the seat of sanctity and to this resplendent Beauty.
minifix 1 year ago
@alibryan20 Hi, I know how hard that can be, but I hope you are feeling better and more positive about life. Hopefully you have access to medication and you know with that, you can live as fully and as happy a life as anyone. Take this as a sign to really enjoy living and do all the things you've always wished you could. I wish you all the best.
probablestars 1 year ago
Keats knew his stuff from this example. Great, thanks Nick Penny. Twitching I now understand. Frank.
fegibbard95 2 years ago
I was listening to this while analyzing the proposal scenes in Jane Eyre. It helped me a great deal, especially when it comes to getting the mood from the different scenes right.
Thank you for posting this :)
ZirconLupa 2 years ago
I am performing Debussy's "En sourdine" in my Senior Vocal Performance Recital. This video has helped me tremendously! The piece begins with a series of repeated notes in the accompaniment then descend in pitch exactly the way these birds are singing. Thank you for posting this, I can now hear their beautiful song while I sing Verlaine's exquisite poetry.
Saraheads8700 2 years ago
my cat gives it a paws up
RedWolfOnAWire 2 years ago 4
Does it have any response listening to that???
konstanosa 2 years ago
yep. i used to listen to that when i was in russia
katrina200577 2 years ago
BEAUTIFUL!!!
lpsgirl7 2 years ago 5
There's an anonymous 17th century lute duet called Le Rossignol. The second part has repeated notes reminiscent of this.
guitar2907 2 years ago
Awesome!
stopandbreathetoday 2 years ago
*lovely*
katsandroses 2 years ago 2
Close......but it's from Southwick forest, a couple of miles away. Nick
nickpenny 2 years ago
Glapthorn Cow Pasture.
markrskinner 2 years ago
Beautiful. Just beautiful.
randomcrazyred 2 years ago 9
Just fabulous. Thanks for sharing this with us.
normalil 2 years ago 15
Thanks for posting this wonderful bird song. I needed to do a little research on nightingales and this is a fine recording of their song. Now I need to seek out the real thing.
Regards, Peter
nordicsky 2 years ago 22
Wow, what a happy fellow, his many voices. Just beautiful.
Thanks,
Esther
Estherredstar 2 years ago 11
The Nightingale & the Blackbird are the best songsters in the World (my opinion that is)....
RenKinRaM 2 years ago 16
Strange that these birds in Sweden sing different I think. Amazing repertoar :-) Sounds almost like the bird is using a laser weapon at times, hehe.
USAneedsaChange 2 years ago 25
The nightingale in Sweden is a different species :) In Swedish, this type (that is in the video clip) is called "sydlig näktergal" instead.
galleytrotter 2 years ago 11
ah, tack :-) Våran i Sthlm låter annorlunda vad jag kan minnas även om det var ett tag se'n jag hörde.
USAneedsaChange 2 years ago 8
thank you very much. It is so relaxing.
poplarleavess 2 years ago 14
I was out walking my dog in the countryside early evening and I heard what I thought was a nightingale. This has just confirmed that it was. What a beautiful song. Thank you.
mightymongoose 2 years ago 7
Thanks for posting this. A few weeks ago I realized that we had a bird singing in my backyard all night. I guessed that it must be a nightingale but wasn't sure. Now I am. Gosh I love the internet. :o)
torrinpaige 2 years ago 5
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Really delightful! Many thanks for share this recording and video with us. It´s a God blessing.
Regards from Zaragoza, Spain.
2007borja 2 years ago
Thank you so much-I want to play this as we read Hans Christian Andersen's "The Nightingale" to my Milwaukee 6th graders. May God Bless You Abundantly!
ChakuraNoYume 2 years ago
Absolutely beautiful. I heard one just like that from just a few feet away, two summers ago at the Arlington reservoir East Sussex; I didn't see it though as it was well hidden.
Geoff.
calibreman 2 years ago
My daughter kept asking me what a nightingale sounded like ever since we read a story about one. Thank you for posting this beautiful example!
siouxsieram 2 years ago 3
I can listen to this all day and all night
BirdFantastic 2 years ago 5
i used to listen to them nightingales all nights long, back in Russia
katrina200577 2 years ago 8
How lovely! I've always wondered what a Nightingale sounds like (and living in the Midlands I was never likely to find out). Thank you for sharing this.
Taffybird74 2 years ago 4
My favorite only second to the Blackbird in my opinion!^^ I love listening to these sweet singers on my way home in the nights!
TheMartinSan 2 years ago
Nick, I am playing it on my laptop in Colliers Wood, South West London- and there's some bird trying to answer, peeping away- I don't know if the other one is a nightingale. Thanks for this lovely clip. I will learn its call and try to listen for them around here- doubtful! But I hope. Thank you
megawatti007 2 years ago
For the last two days I woke up to the sound of a nightingale. I checked on Google for the songs of this bird, and found it. It is so very beautiful to listen to this, in my own backyard at the Meditteranean Seaside. I often wonder why people wear earphones and listen to the radio, while they are outdoors, when the most beautiful concerts come from nature. I actually placed this on my desktop, and listen to it whenever I feel a bit downcast. Wake up and listen!
krmmr 2 years ago 17
Glad they've arrived for you. They should be here in this part of the UK by about April 18th. In case anyone wants to follow their progress, and the development of their song, I'm keeping an audio diary of local birdsong on my website (address in the information to the right of the image above).
Nick
nickpenny 2 years ago
Thank you it is so very beautiful
194734 2 years ago 9
thank you very much for this recording, i have never heard a nightingale.
whydoestheworldexist 2 years ago 3
Absolutely fabulous and thanks for sharing - last and only time I heard a Nightingale was just after WWII and in of all places Berkley Square London - honest :-0
nytecam 2 years ago 8
kewl
gomilev 2 years ago 2
Oh, this is wonderful!!!
Excellent recording! It's very soothing.
To all but my cat... :) he keeps running around trying to find the birds!
greenmoon666 3 years ago 5
wow, this is beautiful
mahogonywhisper 3 years ago 4
Nothing like it!!!!! I used to listen to these wonderful birds in Suffolk
BradBrassman 3 years ago 4
they're still there, I was mesmerised only last week at Alton Water!
1711242627 2 years ago 5
Where can i found this soundtrack??
Is amazing.
catalinux007leiro 3 years ago 5
It's the last track on a CD of English birdsong I recorded, called 'Birds on a Spring Evening.'
You can hear more clips and get it on my website - just google 'nick penny' to find it.
nickpenny 3 years ago
wat een zang dit is prachtig
194734 3 years ago
listen very carefully at 2.22 those 9 tones very gradually decreasing in pitch ,no other british bird does this,you might have to wait 15 minuets or so , but it always comes,then you know you have been listening to a nightingale.
phantomxr 3 years ago 8