In the spirit of putting short recordings out to the group, heres one I
made last Sunday.
I was walking down into the nearby river valley to do some recording
when I was suddenly aware of an unusual bird song - sounding rather
thrushlike - I managed to switch the recorder on and grab the last few
notes without adjusting any settings. Listening back later I realised it
was a Golden Oriole - rather rare, and normally just a few pass through
on migration, though they do still breed in East Anglia I gather - where
I last heard the bird 22 years ago. Its just a shame I didnt see it as
the male is a rather spectacular yellow and green thrush sized bird.
Such a tropical sound is just a-typical of our normal birds. I didnt
hear it again so I assume it was just on passage, called a few times and
then carried on.
I've put the unedited file oriole.mp3 in the files section - please
excuse the usual car sounds, and noisy leaves.
It made my day!
Andrew
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Remember plan 9th May 2009 for a day without cars
- Be a butterfly and stop a hurricane
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