Due to the anthropocenic momentum of the pandemic, birdsong turned into an alternative avenue of research. First, the relative human silence allowed birds to be more present and audible, even if they were singing at a lower volume, and this aroused a nostalgia for what we were losing to anthropogenic noise. Then, a reflection followed about how history and birdsong intertwined, even about birdsong as history, as a non-human or more-than-human history that sings and offers multispecies stories of a certain place and time. This chapter adopts a situated approach that combines academic research with moments of attentive listening and personal experiences involving birds and their sounds and specifically, blackbirds, and an individual male blackbird in particular. Stressing the materiality of the text and the instant (of listening, of writing) it attempts to offer, in parallel, blackbird episodes as lived and listened to from a human perspective together with a reflection on the songs of this blackbird as a collection of sounds (from other birds, from humans) selected from the surrounding soundscape in as many episodes, with the aim of presenting those songs as more-than-human stories and histories of that situated place.