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Subject: Re: birds wakening from the shortest night...
From: "Suzanne Williams" scw1217
Date: Sat Jun 23, 2007 5:20 am ((PDT))
Very nice.  Unusual to have gulls with other birds, at least for me.
But I enjoyed it.

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Suzanne
http://web.tampabay.rr.com/swilli41/www
Florida, USA



--- In  "stoatwizard" <>
wrote:
>
> Recorded these in my suburban backyard - the song of the birds
after
> the shortest night. I picked out this 2 min section - I like the
> musicality of the blackbirds against the harshness of the gulls,
and
> finished with the first sparrow's chirp at 4:10am
>
> http://www.suffolkbirds.co.uk/audio/T443lr_trimf.mp3
>
> The advantage of midsummer is that now the dawn is earlier than the
> excess of traffic rumble from the ring-road 1/4 mile away, and we
still
> have the remnants of a ban on night flights - the first aircraft
drone
> begins a little after 5:30 most days :)
>
> I seem to recall there was a collection of dawn birdsong from
earlier
> in the year associated with this group a few years back, but I
haven't
> heard anything like that lately. Wonder what happened to it...
>






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