S4E37 - Dawn Chorus in Cootes Paradise

[00:00:00] You're listening to Songbirding Under 5kHz, a modified version of the Songbirding podcast for listeners with high frequency hearing loss. After sunrise every morning during the spring migration and during breeding season, habitats everywhere erupt into birdsong.

[00:00:56] This is referred to as the Dawn Chorus, and depending on where you live could just be a few neighborhood backyard birds or a deafening cacophony of species competing to be heard the most.

[00:01:10] It's late April and I'm hiking along the ravine road in Cootes Paradise on the western edge of Lake Ontario. We'll be listening to species such as American Robin, Pine Warbler, Carolina Renn, Ruby Crown, Kinglet and many more. My name is Rob, and this is Songbirding.

[00:02:45] I met Rithine Road and Westdale in Hamilton, Ontario. This is the Dawn Corpus, Songbirding. It's not up yet. It's starting to break. Late April, we've got a lot of Brawlands, a few red wind black birds and Carolina Renn.

[00:03:22] And the woodbacker of Songbird, and a few things pair of them hearing fairly far off. It's a Carolina Renn, and some puttering. It's around this time of day when birds get extremely active when they're in territory. It's a kind of way to reestablishing the territories after waking up.

[00:04:22] Because birds don't have things like scent markers or other means of identifying their territories. It's all the case of these kinds of birds. Song that from a establish their territorial boundaries, hearing some pine warblers. Another Carolina Renn at the head. Here's a Carolina Renn, red wind black birds.

[00:06:04] It's a very active cardinal. It might be a dispute over territory. It's picking in some song. It's something arguing. It's chasing around. Okay. There's a light through its bears. And black cat chickie. They're both very similar. So chickie just has this. That's the black cat chickie.

[00:07:56] But up ahead, there's some light through its bears too. Also have a hermit thrush right in front of me. It's not seen at the Merdle Warble.

[00:09:42] So as more light gatherings. We're going to set this down. And have a soundstab, gone chorus. Like a gullywood pecker. And a very big crinkling. Very big crowned Kee-1. And we have Lou J too. It's a starlings. And Northern Cardinal.

[00:10:53] Someone has set this down and you see how it goes.

[00:28:39] I've got a bald eagle in front of me. I've got a perch. Down occasional calls. And I set this down for soundscape. It's also a songstab here. I have the bald eagle. Songstab. Oh. Okay, I've set this down. So I've been capturing various soundscape. So we've done chorus.

[00:36:14] Songstab here of course. It's brown head of cow bird a second ago too. Lots of Ruby Crankinglut. Happy M there. Also a bald eagle. I'm not expecting that. Careliner in. Very close up. This one's only a few feet in front of me. And a chipmunk. Very loud chipmunk.

[00:37:05] Maybe 15 feet in front of me. This car light around. Better in.

[00:37:52] Chipmunk. Maybe a two chipmunk's not sure. But I'm not sure. Oh, anyways. Bald eagle. That was perched in one of the pine. The white pine trees here. And you know, vocalized a little bit. Interesting behavior with as well. That I saw it open.

[00:38:20] It's mouth a lot without vocalizing or without audible vocalizing at least. Not sure if it was just. You kind of think, maybe it was just like a wound injury while you were そうですね, regurgitating. That kind of thing. That's why I needed to not fit.

[00:38:52] If it was having problems vocalizing for some reason, don't know. Most of the times it vocalized for several times people did that, or up in stuff that didn't actually, these pineweblers are too far off trail for me to really get close to them for recording

[00:40:07] so far but creaky tree in that can happen and a brownhead of cat bird pinewebler white breast not hatch your pain starling in order to lay with pecker

[00:43:39] songboarding on territory was recorded engineered narrated and created by me Rob Porter with cover art and logo design by Lauren Hilton and Creative Commons music from Martin shellicans