Author Topic: Heard today (Read 27575 times)

BrianI · « **Reply #50 on:** 14 April, 2020, 08:34:41 am »

Out with my trusty Olympus LS14 (and my DIY stereo pair microphones) at Calais Woods, Dunfermline yesterday as part of my allowed Lockdown Exercise:

https://youtu.be/8TwPBeJyFBA

Sonic Visualizer used to do the fancy scrolling spectrogram.

PaulR · « **Reply #51 on:** 02 May, 2021, 10:59:06 am »

I made a few recordings early yesterday, mainly warblers of various sorts down by the Thame. I had just been waiting quietly for a kingfisher to reappear when I was startled by a nearby bird which sang with a fierce bright tone. It's at 34s in this recording: https://soundcloud.com/user-143636955/eythrope-birdsong-shorter-1-may-2021 and I'm pretty sure it's a Cetti's warbler, but happy to be corrected!

Wowbagger · « **Reply #52 on:** 03 May, 2021, 07:32:57 pm »

You are absolutely right about the Cetti's warbler! Noisy buggers, aren't they?

Wowbagger · « **Reply #53 on:** 07 May, 2021, 02:24:50 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BINgOxnEO0o&ab_channel=TheHedgehogsofEastStreet

I recorded a nightingale in Southend this morning. There are several other songbirds in there too.

PaulR · « **Reply #54 on:** 08 May, 2021, 06:09:39 pm »

Quote from: Wowbagger on 07 May, 2021, 02:24:50 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BINgOxnEO0o&ab_channel=TheHedgehogsofEastStreet

I recorded a nightingale in Southend this morning. There are several other songbirds in there too.

What a gorgeous sound! I do wish we had nightingales round this way.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #55 on:** 08 May, 2021, 07:59:04 pm »

Are you in the Thames Valley? I would have thought they ventured that far.

They are hit-and-miss round here. Quite unusual in the sense that there aren't may about, but every spring there seem to be a few.

http://www.southendrspb.co.uk/sightings.htm

Yesterday there were 3 reports in SE Essex.

PaulR · « **Reply #56 on:** 10 May, 2021, 09:21:02 am »

We're up in the Thame valley near Aylesbury and I don't think nightingales turn up round here, but I will keep my ear to the ground. THere used to be some at an MOD site near Bicester, and one was found at Brill a few years back. Local birders tend to head down to Greenham Common for nightingale action.

pcolbeck · « **Reply #57 on:** 26 May, 2021, 05:38:00 am »

You would think living in a small village miles from a main road it would be quite. I was up early this morning and went outside with a coffee at 4:00am. The dawn chorus was deafening !
I think we are at peak dawn chorus at the moment.

Wowbagger · « **Reply #58 on:** 30 May, 2021, 10:10:16 pm »

Jan and I went to see our younger son on Friday. He lives in a very peaceful, rural spot a few miles north of Colchester. From his front room we could hear a blackcap, a song thrush, and quite a bit of more common stuff.

PaulR · « **Reply #59 on:** 02 June, 2021, 02:40:11 pm »

https://soundcloud.com/user-143636955/cuckoo-may-2021
Cuckoo by the sewage works the other day

https://soundcloud.com/user-143636955/cettis-warbler-at-eythrope-30
and a Cetti's warbler a bit further upstream

ravenbait · « **Reply #60 on:** 02 June, 2021, 03:10:15 pm »

You all should consider submitting to the Field recordings podcast.

https://fieldrecordings.xyz/

Sam

PaulR · « **Reply #61 on:** 02 June, 2021, 03:51:50 pm »

Nice idea Sam - being a bit technologically backward I'm not sure how to set about submitting something, there's no obvious mechanism there.

ravenbait · « **Reply #62 on:** 02 June, 2021, 04:43:32 pm »

I've asked Ellie on twitter.

Sam

ravenbait · « **Reply #63 on:** 02 June, 2021, 07:13:17 pm »

Ellie says to email them to her at eleanor (dot) mcdowall (at) gmail (dot) com.

Sam

PaulR · « **Reply #64 on:** 02 June, 2021, 08:56:36 pm »

Thanks Sam - that looks like a lovely resource and I'd be delighted to contribute

PaulR · « **Reply #65 on:** 14 June, 2021, 09:47:46 am »

Thanks Sam for having put me in touch - one of my recordings has just gone up!
https://fieldrecordings.xyz/2021/06/14/retreating-thunderstorm-cuddington-buckinghamshire-uk-in-may-2021-by-paul-ridout/

Wowbagger · « **Reply #66 on:** 14 June, 2021, 11:18:26 am »

Listening to that immediately launched the finale of Beethoven's 6th symphony as my earworm for the morning!

ravenbait · « **Reply #67 on:** 14 June, 2021, 12:54:49 pm »

Quote from: PaulR on 14 June, 2021, 09:47:46 am

Thanks Sam for having put me in touch - one of my recordings has just gone up!
https://fieldrecordings.xyz/2021/06/14/retreating-thunderstorm-cuddington-buckinghamshire-uk-in-may-2021-by-paul-ridout/

That's fantastic. I could listen to that for hours. Your garden sounds idyllic.

I should probably note it's entirely likely I will listen to it for hours. I often put tracks like that on repeat while I'm writing -- my synaesthesia means I need to control what I can hear in order to focus, and this is absolutely perfect.

Sam

Peter · « **Reply #68 on:** 14 June, 2021, 05:03:42 pm »

Paul, that's just terrific, thank you - and Sam, thanks for the suggestion.

hatler · « **Reply #69 on:** 14 June, 2021, 05:17:23 pm »

That is delightful. Very evocative.

PaulR · « **Reply #70 on:** 12 September, 2021, 05:32:48 pm »

I took my zoom out again today.
https://soundcloud.com/user-143636955/conkers-falling-into-the-thame
https://soundcloud.com/user-143636955/cetti
https://soundcloud.com/user-143636955/eythrope

Mrs Pingu · « **Reply #71 on:** 17 October, 2021, 02:45:45 pm »

Last night while walking to a local eatery we heard what sounded like it might have been a male tawny owl in need of some cough lozenges. It did the 'whoo' but it was pretty scratchy as well.
Could have been a fox I suppose. Intrigued...

Peter · « **Reply #72 on:** 20 October, 2021, 12:13:36 pm »

Could also have been someone from the eatery bringing their meal up in a hedge..... How are you feeling today?

PaulR · « **Reply #73 on:** 15 December, 2021, 06:02:01 pm »

What larks, eh?
https://fieldrecordings.xyz/2021/12/08/skylarks-buckinghamshire-uk-in-november-2021-by-paul-ridout/

Wowbagger · « **Reply #74 on:** 27 December, 2021, 02:31:31 pm »

I wasn't close enough even to attempt a recording, but this morning I heard a song thrush in the very rural bit of Essex near my son's house.