The Liquid Strophes of late Spring
04/01/24 • 61 min
In this, the tenth episode, you shall experience the diurnal and nocturnal auditory soundscape of the wonderful avian sounds of Sweden.
First up, a sound magazine concerning the incredible diurnal sounds of late Spring, as the landscape is filled with the chimes of birds, the various displays of species intent on breeding and setting up territory, here in Scandinavia. Experience the wonder of a landscape filled with bird song.
Secondly, I will return to early Spring and share the secrets of the hidden world of nocturnal migration. In the magazine you will hear the calls of migrant birds in the dead of night. These sounds are a hidden library of often long travelling species, intent on returning to the breeding grounds in order to meet future mates and reproduce, an instinct which see's our night skies filled with the calls of these avian travellers each year, a testament to the incredible resilience of nature and the inherrent drive to return to the breeding grounds, each calender year. Experience how nocturnal, automative recording opens up such a hiiden world to our often oblivious ears...
In this, the tenth episode, you shall experience the diurnal and nocturnal auditory soundscape of the wonderful avian sounds of Sweden.
First up, a sound magazine concerning the incredible diurnal sounds of late Spring, as the landscape is filled with the chimes of birds, the various displays of species intent on breeding and setting up territory, here in Scandinavia. Experience the wonder of a landscape filled with bird song.
Secondly, I will return to early Spring and share the secrets of the hidden world of nocturnal migration. In the magazine you will hear the calls of migrant birds in the dead of night. These sounds are a hidden library of often long travelling species, intent on returning to the breeding grounds in order to meet future mates and reproduce, an instinct which see's our night skies filled with the calls of these avian travellers each year, a testament to the incredible resilience of nature and the inherrent drive to return to the breeding grounds, each calender year. Experience how nocturnal, automative recording opens up such a hiiden world to our often oblivious ears...
Previous Episode
An Interview with Dean McDonnell
A Wild Bird Acoustics interview with Dean Mc Donnell, an Irish birder and field recorder based in Co. Louth, Ireland. During the course of the interview, we discuss birding in the areas Dean has been recording at and he shares some wonderful audio of a wide range of species from the past few years...
00:00 Introduction to Wild Bird Acoustics
00:50 Interview with Special Guest: Dean McDonnell
01:29 Dean's Journey into Birding
02:29 Exploring Birding Habits and Techniques
08:29 The challenges of Sound Recording in Louth
09:53 The Fascination of Field Recording
11:04 Dean's Recording Equipment
12:45 Birding Locations and Habitats
39:19 Discussing the Sounds of Spring and Summer
41:04 The Intricacies of Birdsong
41:30 The song of Common Cuckoo's
42:59 Alarming birds and Sparrowhawk
45:14 The Sounds of the flood meadow and Eurasian Teal
54:24 The Unique sound of Hoverfly's!
01:12:02 The Song of the Skylark
01:18:20 Echolocation of the Soprano Pipistrelle
01:22:42 The Melody of the Song Thrush
Next Episode
Spring Symphony; An Introduction to VisMig
A further deep dive into the wonderful sounds of Sweden in late Spring. This is a period, during which, the landscape is filled with the sounds of returning summer migrants. It is a time of auditory wonder, as the landscape slowly fills with the sounds of prospective summer breeders.
Looking forward to the second half of the episode I have put together an introduction to VisMigging. After nature has taken it's course and the breeding season has come to an end, the stage is set for the epic Autumn migration of many bird species. Here in Sweden, the early morning skies are filled with the calls and vocalizations of migrant birds, as they make their way southwards. At many sites, the incredible spectacle of migration can be enjoyed by sitting out during the early hours, observing these birds as they pass overhead. In this sound magazine, I will take you through the basics of watching, as well as listening, for visibly migrating birds over the Autumnal period...
Wild Bird Acoustics - The Liquid Strophes of late Spring
Transcript
📍 Now, hello there, and you're very welcome once again to Wild Bird Acoustics. I'm your host, Alan Dalton, and I'll be taking you on a journey into sound.
Here we are again. It's Episode 9 of Wild Bird Acoustics. And once again, I'd like to thank you all for tuning in to listen.
And in this episode, I'm going to be first covering the late spring period in May here in Sweden. And what a wonderful time it is to actually get out in the field and record.
Now late spring is incredi
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