S4E38 - Evensong

[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 sunset in some habitats during migration and breeding season, a compliment to the Don Corusc occurs

[00:00:45] During evensong, species such as American woodcock and this Wilson S-Nipe come out to make elaborate displays of sound My name is Rob and this is Songbirding

[00:01:34] So I'm walking down to Road next to a quarry, a quarter of Hamilton and I got some starlings here singing and the Eastern Metal Arts thing And it's the evening, it's buzzing

[00:01:57] I believe that's a northern, roughly small of a buzzing, I'm not sure if buzzing is right turned but I'll use it Starlings are left, Metal Arts is still singing, also the casterled here, not singing, the wing that is perched

[00:02:32] A top and old telegraph hole, Metal Arts is stuck for a bit It's close to sunset, it's trying to get darker, the sun isn't down yet but clouds have gone over it The clouds have gone over the sun so, might as well be setting

[00:03:08] I'm going to fair a bit of wind here, it's being pushed up and out of the quarry I wonder if that Metal Arts is going to bed now, it's certainly going to ground A couple of red wing blackbirds here, there you killed here flying around

[00:03:56] Of course these two red wing blackbirds call it, dancing, it's our buzzy, northern rough wings follow We've got another Metal Arts thing, American Robin and Sonsbury, lots of Sonsbury Putting up their last Sons of the night, well I shouldn't say that for the Robin

[00:05:50] They've lost a little longer after sunset Hopefully hearing horn dark but I'll also be picked up in the quarry, very quiet, it's busy Sonsbury is going over, you can actually see these birds in the trailer Sonsbury, it's really unusual red wing blackbird call

[00:07:12] It sounded very different than usual red wing blackbird but it was, I watched it, it was a blackbird Now it made that sound before them taking the fly and going far It's got a destination, it's just going

[00:07:30] I wonder if it may be some kind of call that's made before they leave their daytime territory I'm hearing a lot of horn dark activity, there's a couple of banks in front of me, ditches

[00:08:04] And then some quarry on the other side, some of these large dirt, either from the ditches or on the banks I can't really see them but they're quite loud Of course we hear the chorus for all this time, they're actually louder, arguably than the horn marks

[00:08:50] I think that's the same thing to do with the horn mark I think myself down in one of the ditches Together the wind Listen to these quiet songs, the horn mark, they don't get much louder than this Anyways, this isn't a feature of evening songs

[00:09:36] This is just how quiet they are, just started turkey behind me somewhere While turkey gobbled call, they can maybe call the song, maybe They're right in front of me but it's quite an individual song, they're really on the hearing

[00:10:26] Because there's so many of them, and here the car is there, a couple miles away a lot clear The dog that's also a couple miles away

[00:13:21] There's our Wilson Sinep, but I love Candidkeys Wilson Sinep, the K-Smart American Woodcock The horn marks are still really carrying on And there's our Wilson Sinep, there's also a lot of dogs barking too, which is not a sound record

[00:15:13] It's like me, not pleasant because it's not what I'm aiming to record But it is what it is, it's got a distant grey horn down It's going behind me, I have all these horn marks

[00:15:53] Still really rattling on, and above me, Wilson Sinep, kind of a distance of turkey, wild turkey Occasionally grey horn all, it comes in America with cut, is the American Woodcock Right, this is a kind of, calls flying around here

[00:17:15] But Wilson Sinep's are doing their windows, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we Hard to describe, and all the thought that these horn marks would stop by now, they're still carrying on That was a nice close one, don't know what that sounded, it's overhead

[00:20:04] Flying by, this is a peenthing from the American Woodcock, it's a few around Something going through the shrub, they're not shrubs, oh there's some deer here There's some deer on the other side of a fence here We've decided to run off though, is it killed here?

[00:21:31] It's very strange, it's probably the deer walking around where the horn marks were They're still carrying on, it's kind of killed here, Wilson Sinep

[00:23:00] So it's kind of like the opposite of dawn corals here What's some call it even song? One of the last songs of the night, and there's a kill near For certain species that sleep at night at least, they get their last songs in, establish

[00:23:27] One of their territories were at least the one they are for the night Then you get these kind of displays by Wilson Sinep, American Woodcock And the hooting with three horn now, there are different ways of establishing territory

[00:23:47] While everything else is gone to sleep, they don't have impressive visual displays So they don't need light, they even press of sounds that can make Well, here's a very distant coyote song Not that dog or he behind me but, what if our off?

[00:24:31] I was hearing a bit of a chorus There's just one of those things that happens when you're You do night time recordings in the country What was that? That three, I think those were a woodcock, I think those were Sinep

[00:25:14] Flew over me, woodcock when they fly, they make these ridiculous sounds Those are ridiculous sounds At least when they're taking off for display they do Suppose it's possible they were female and just flying off somewhere

[00:25:45] But what it was about to say is that those things as a record It's a deal of at night time recordings As you can tell where the houses are Because more often than not they have outdoor dogs

[00:26:03] And those dogs communicate with each other at a distance as well The opposition to the songs of the Eastern Coyote 2 which I've only captured in person a handful of times It's usually automated recording units, the graph There was another interesting sound

[00:26:41] I know that sound but I don't know what it is Some kind of bird flew over and made that I've killed there still flying around There we go What is that sound? Maybe that was because I had a Wilson's sniper really close to me

[00:27:44] That one was low and close, I didn't even see it still I think it really here that one Something flying by and screeching Still a lot of activity Went from units to over half an hour down Fills in sight

[00:28:40] When there have been lucky enough to have my other recorder pick some up It is at the road It was pointed at some Eastern metalworks

[00:29:57] It's a little closer It's time for me to head out now It's going quite dark out here now An hour passed sunset Roughly So this will be the last episode of the fourth season of song burning But there is a fifth season Starting right away

[00:31:24] And it will be focused on a single location Starting with a single trip That took in the middle of 2021 Actually right around the solstice In a very quiet remote place Away from a lot of the anthropogenic sounds Of cities and towns In that season will be shorter

[00:32:13] But I actually will be returning to that location soon And so maybe more than just one trip We have some Additional follow-up content Two kind of contrast and compare Well they got in one year versus another there But it does contain some of my favorite

[00:32:36] Recordings I've done so far So thank you for listening to this fourth season These Rate and review where you can I show and share it with others That's usually how these kinds of shows grow In this word of mouth by those who have listened to it

[00:33:02] You have any questions It's always reach out to me Robetsonverting.com by email Now I'm going to go see what's on that other record Maybe you'll hear some of that That's the episode exits Some burning on territory was recorded Engineering, narrated and created by me Rob Porter

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