Bird Listening
No time for bird-watching? Try bird-listening. The last weekend was very busy but I still found time to listen to the birds.
I was cleaning up the SL ready for Sunday's MAC Classic Car run and I realised that I was identifying the birds around from their calls. I could pick out several blackbirds in different hedges and trees and a chaffinch was somewhere behind me. Even our resident wren made itself heard at one point.
I didn't see any of the birds I was listening to, apart from the occasional flutter through my peripheral vision, but I knew they were there. I must search out recordings of UK bird sounds so that I can add to the catalogue of birds I can identify by ear. I can recognise most of out regular garden visitors, but there are many calls I cannot put a name to, especially when we are away from home.
Categories: Birds, Birdwatching
I was cleaning up the SL ready for Sunday's MAC Classic Car run and I realised that I was identifying the birds around from their calls. I could pick out several blackbirds in different hedges and trees and a chaffinch was somewhere behind me. Even our resident wren made itself heard at one point.
I didn't see any of the birds I was listening to, apart from the occasional flutter through my peripheral vision, but I knew they were there. I must search out recordings of UK bird sounds so that I can add to the catalogue of birds I can identify by ear. I can recognise most of out regular garden visitors, but there are many calls I cannot put a name to, especially when we are away from home.
Categories: Birds, Birdwatching
posted by Richard Galle at 12:31 PM
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