S6E21 - Dawn Hike at Deer Lick Run, Part 5

[00:00:10] Dark-eyed Junko There's quite a lot of red-eyed virios still singing It's a couple hours after sunrise now They do sing all day, but this intensity is generally a reserved for the early morning My name is Rob and this is Songbirding Bluejay A distant pilliated woodpecker

[00:02:40] I'm going to continue along here Another red-eft A little belly-saps here A puddle in the trail here Tiny frogs jumped into the puddle I can't see them where they went I'm going to watch the ground Make sure I don't step on the red-eft There's another one

[00:05:32] A little belly-saps here A little belly-saps here A little belly-saps here A little belly-saps here Yeah, there's another one Oh boy The guys are everywhere It's five now Six There's another one A little smaller That's six snoots now It's amazing this road is still wet

[00:06:35] It's not rained once the whole time I've been here It sounds like it hasn't rained in quite some time here The dirt roads that are more exposed to the sun Are just super dusty right now So the soil is very good at retaining moisture

[00:07:09] Plus I don't think the sun ever hits this spot Canopies too thick For there to be any concentration of sun on it Make sure little bits get in here and there, of course Starting to get close to where I started out A little quieter now Winter rains

[00:08:03] Still lots of background red-eyed virios Just not as loud Some smack sounds from Dark-Eyed Junkos At least I think that's what that is Yeah, I think a female and a young actually A good juvenile I don't know that I've ever really seen a juvenile Dark-Eyed Junko before

[00:09:01] Doing good job hiding though Oh, lovin' bird Though that might have been quiet Oh, black-throated blue warbler right in front of me It's not saying anything yet Other than one little squeaky kind of maid Seems to be just catching bugs A Magnolia warbler here

[00:11:11] Starting to get some bugs in around my face But you know what? This whole trip has been Relatively bug-free It's very strange I haven't seen any mosquito bites No black fly bites for sure The worst is just a few bugs flying around my face once in a while

[00:11:44] Little gnats, midges, those kinds of things Or like a big horse fly flying around This black-throated green warbler Winter rain You guys close up on this winter rain That was a long one So winter rains are one of the few species that are so loud

[00:15:17] When I edit recordings I need to Well generally need to lower the volume on it a bit Most birds need to be boosted But as I'm close to this one I do not need to Boost it in any way, I need to reduce it Alright

[00:17:03] The problem is I knew this winter rain was probably so close That once I walked by it was going to fly away I'm pretty sure it's done that I didn't want to disturb it if it was going to fly off on its own But in several minutes

[00:17:26] So I got to move along When I record most recorders are really tuned To the range of human voice And are often meant for Or designed to capture things that are nearby the microphone But birds are rarely nearby the microphone So I'm always pushing their limits

[00:18:02] Like cranking them up to the highest possible level The winter rain is one of those few That you can get close enough to That they kind of They don't over on the microphone Because it never hits any kind of peak Or anything like that

[00:18:20] It's just they hit frequencies that the human ear Is really good at hearing So they really cut in To your perception Of your hearing They just hit notes that are really, really loud Two hour ears Alright so I got a recorder here

[00:18:56] That left behind when I first entered And it's been like two hours So there should be some interesting stuff on that And I'll share that along with this recording Anything interesting from that Songbirding, the Allegheny National Forest Is a songbirding studios production And was recorded, engineered, narrated

[00:19:41] And created by me, Rob Porter With cover art and logo design by Lauren Helton And Creative Commons Music from Chase and Shaw