What Time do birds go to "bed"?

[DawnCt1]

Silly question I know, but a chickadee of something similar built a nest in our garage up on a shelf. The babies have hatched. I can hear them "screaming" when they are hungry. I feel compelled to keep the garage open even when I am not home but I hate to keep it open too late at night. What time do you think "mom" is in the nest? The babies are quiet now so do you think once it is dark she is home? I open the door by 6:30 am.

 

[OceanAnnie]

I don't know, but they wake up at before sunrise.

Signed,
Grumpy

 

[DawnCt1]

I don't know, but they wake up at before sunrise.

Signed,
Grumpy

I am not getting up that early. This happens every year. Last year we locked the mom out and she was waiting in a tree to fly into the garage. I felt terrible. It is cold here and I don't want the babies to freeze.

 

[barkley]

we have tons of birds who nest in our yard and on our deck-they tend to settle down and no longer fly off once it gets dark.

unfortumatly, if we had to accommodate them by keeping a garage door open until dark that would have us up pretty late-right now sunset is at about 8:30-but it's realy not dark such that the birds stop flying around till at least 9. come a month or so from now-it will still be fairly light at up to 10 p.m.

 

[Sparx]

I had pet birds when I was younger. If you covered their cage with a blanket, they went to sleep. So it does sound really plausible that they're sleeping when its dark outside.