Luckily, most birds have a slightly more familiar approach.

But you also see birds, in particular wood pigeons in, in my garden, which like to sit in the birdbath.

Uh, what they're doing is they're cooling down as well as bathing at that point, and they can sit there for a good half-hour soaking up the water into their feathers.

They actually have this curious thing called powder down.

They don't have, uh, oil glands in order to keep their plumage fresh.

They have powder that is, uh, little bits of feather that break off and allow the pigeons to preen that through their feathers to keep them in good nick.

And when they sit in the birdbath for half an hour and get out, you'll often see this slick on top of the water.

We can also do our bit to help birds during the summer.

[upbeat music] So how exactly do birds make all these glorious songs then?

[laughs] I know, it's, it's fabulous, isn't it, when you think about how many sounds seem to come out of their mouth in such a gush.

And it wasn't known for sure until only a few years ago exactly how they did it.

We have a larynx.

It's effectively a valve, and air gets pushed through it and, and the valves kind of vibrate.

With the birds, it turns out that they have a version of the larynx which is further down the windpipe after it has actually, uh, gone into a Y shape.

So they have two larynxes.

I wanna go out and, and hear the dawn chorus." So what's some ad-advice that you'd give to someone who's interested in doing that? How can they have the best experience?