Winter Recording and the Dark Arts

This episode continues with the theme of winter field recording here in Sweden. Join me to experience the joys of the winter landscape here in Sweden, with two sections to enjoy from the field being published for the first time.

 Finally, there will be an  introduction to recording nocturnally migrating birds at night. This later introduction to NocMig recording, as it is commonly known, will prelude more content on nocturnal recording in future episodes from my two listening stations here in Sweden. Once again, join me here at Wild Bird Acoustics to listen to the wonderful world of wild bird sounds, recorded in the field here in Sweden.

Transcript

So welcome to wild bird acoustics, folks. I'm your host, Alan Dalton, and I'll be taking you on a journey into sound. 

Welcome to Wild Bird Acoustics. Once again, I'm Alan Dalton, and here we are once more. It's absolutely freezing outside folks. As I sit at my desk, it's minus 12 outside and we're in the grips of winter. 

Now it may be very cold here in Stockholm City, but I was out birding this morning briefly and I made a trip to go out and see a little bunting that has appeared at a feeding station just to the east of Stockholm City. It's in a suburban garden, the bird. I did have some views, they were quite decent through the telescope, but unfortunately it didn't call or certainly didn't call very, very well.

So from that point of view, I wasn't successful, but nevermind. It's very nice to see such a rare bird at this time of the year. It's just before Christmas, 2023, and I'm just getting ready for the yuletide. I'm heading back to Ireland in a couple of days. And I just thought I would work my way through this second episode.

So what have we got for you in this second episode? Well, first up, we're going to have a nice sound magazine for you, and that's a winter recordings, and they will come from a lovely part of the world down in Sandamar reserve, just south of Stockholm city. We're going to be delving into the world of the dark arts.

That's NocMig folks. And basically what I wanted to do was just introduce listeners to nocturnal migration and the recording of nocturnal migration. And to do that, I thought I'd just. put a small piece together  on my first efforts knock making, which were actually just over my apartment,  And that location is where I first began to knock me right in the middle of Stockholm City, and it yielded some quite amazing results and we'll get into that a little bit later on. And it's also as I say, by way of introducing the world of knock make to listeners as we'll have quite a bit of a going forward in the podcast. 



 Now I would like to say folks, it's always beneficial to wear headphones when you're listening to the podcast. In general, listening through headphones will really, really increase the kind of sensory perception of the bird songs that you're going to hear on the podcast in general. It's a much better way to listen to bird songs and you get a nice stereo effect with headphones. Sometimes if there's just quiet calls of nocturnal migrants or diurnal migrants, you will actually hear them better as well.

That's enough talk for now, I think, and it's time to get into some nice bird sounds.  So, here's the first sound magazine, and as I said, it's absolutely freezing here at the moment, 

as it was when I recorded most of the audio in the following sound magazine. Now this audio was generally taken in February when it was very, very cold. And you will hear that in the recordings. 

So why not just sit back folks, get yourself warm. Maybe get into the bath and relax. And listen to some nice winter sounds from here in Sweden. 

So here you have our second sound magazine, folks. It's a winter recording in Sweden. Enjoy 

  So there you have a beautiful soundscape from Sweden and that's the ice slowly, slowly freezing over the Baltic Sea as hooded crows call in the distance. Winter in Sweden is a fantastic time to record. It's something I've not done a whole lot of in the last 10 years but in the last couple of winters I've tried to get out and record as much as possible and it's been extremely rewarding.

One of the great advantages of recording in winter is that it's quite cold and sound travels very, very well, and as a result, you can get some beautiful, clear recordings. Now, going forward in the podcast, I will bring you these short magazines. Sometimes they will be based on days out in the field, and sometimes they'll be more of a collage of a month in the field.

They will vary, and there will be a lot of species involved, but for now, we will concentrate on winter in Sweden. So moving along, the next species we will deal with is Great Spotted Woodpecker. Quite commonly found here in Sweden, stays all year round. And this call is the familiar kick call of Great Spotted Woodpecker.

It was recorded at Kulaskogen in Värmdä, Sweden on the 12th of December 2021. In the background you'll hear a blackbird calling, as the woodpecker gives its call repeatedly in the forest. 

So there you have the call of Great Spotted Woodpecker in the forest of Kulaskogan.  Now next up is Tiristin National Park and this is a favourite venue of mine throughout the year and on this occasion, the 28th of February, I visited the park just to see what was happening. During my early morning walk I came across the skullcrest which was singing quite early.

Turned out that there was two birds involved and they were having an early territorial dispute. So in the background here, you will hear great spotted woodpecker feeding and also blue tit. But the closer birds are singing or maybe sub song of Goldcrest. Now one of the things I like about the park is it's quite remote and as a result, there's very little background noise.

So this is quite a nice recording. Have a listen. This is Goldcrest at Tirste National Park, Sweden. 

Now one of the things I've learnt over the years while sound recording is never to pass common birds as quite often you can get a very nice recording and this is a case in point. So this is an extremely common species around Europe which is great tit. I found this bird also at Tiriston National Park a couple of weeks later on the 5th of March and the bird was just singing quite early in the season.

It's quite a nice recording. In the background you'll hear Siskind as the wind just rushes slowly through the conifers. So this is Great Tit Singing at Tyrsta National Park in Sweden. 

Now one of the more regular species you come across in winter in Sweden is Crested Tit, and they have a particularly beautiful call I think. On this occasion I visited Kuleskogen, which is located in Värmda, which is just east of Stockholm city. The birds were calling from tall spruces, and there were several birds in the area.

So here's the call of Crested Tit. In the background you'll hear Eurasian Ciscan also calling. So this is Crested Tit at Kuleskogen in Sweden. 

Now urban environments shouldn't be ignored when it's recording. And this is a case in point. I made this recording at a place called the Restekorn, which is located in the northern suburbs of Stockholm city. And it's quite an urban environment, and although there's a little bit of background noise here from people, you will also hear coot, blue tit and mallard.

But the main subject bird here is grey heron. And at this site, they feed the birds through the winter. It's a small lake, and there's a feeding station, which occasionally is stocked with fish for the birds. As a result, you get quite a lot of birds, up to 50 or 60 birds, and they gather, hoping to be fed.

And here you have a few birds squabbling over a bit of herring. So this is grey herring squabbling over food at Restocorn. in Sweden. 

Another very common species here that's a resident all year is Nuthatch, and on this occasion I went to Tirstin National Park once again on the 6th of February, and I found this Nuthatch calling and feeding away, and it's quite a nice recording as there's no background noise. In fact, in the background you'll also hear the calls of Hawfinch. 

So red crossbills are very much a flock bird and quite often you will find them in groups in the winter and they breed very early in the season and I came across this flock and they were just moving around the trees giving excitement calls and regular calls and they were moving around quite a bit and eventually I managed a decent recording so we can have a listen to that now.

This is a red crossbill at Kulasgogen in Sweden. 

Now one of the most beautiful sounds of the winter for me are the large corvids and the biggest of them all is the northern raven. This is quite an atmospheric call for me and I just love these birds. I made a trip down to Landsort which is on the Baltic coast south of Nynäsam here in Sweden and on this occasion there were plenty of ravens around and eventually a couple of birds flew over calling.

This is quite a deep guttural call from a bird just over my head.  Enjoy. 

Now returning to Crested Tit, this is one of my favourite species to record in winter. They're very, very active and always on the move. And the callus is quite beautiful. And on this occasion I travelled out to Sandamar, a reserve just south of Sweden. And it's a wonderful location. to actually get out and record in, although there is a road quite close and there can be some background noise.

However, on this occasion, I just found a nice group feeding together and they were right beside the Baltic Sea and in the background, although it was still late winter, Goldeneye were just starting to pair up. And in the background, you will hear Goldeneye just moving around, their high pitched wingbeats,  as well as the males calling.

Also in the background here is Herring Gull. Now I suppose this is quite a long recording and I'll probably let it play for two or three minutes and this will become a common theme in the podcast and the reasoning behind that is I want people to be able to just listen and relax to, to the sounds of nature here in Sweden.

Rather than cut the recordings too short, I think it's better to let them play out. So I suppose this is a podcast really for people who are very interested in field recording and longer recordings. And also for people who just want to relax and listen to the sounds of nature. So I hope you find this relaxing.

This is Crested Tit Soundscape  from Sandamar in Sweden.  Enjoy. 

Early in the section I gave you a short recording of grey herons squabbling over some fish. And on the same morning as I was walking through the woods, I came across a Eurasian Jay, giving a little bit of subsong, and then breaking it to its more usual raucous calls. This was recorded at Restaquarn, in the northern suburbs of Stockholm city.

And in the background you will hear a tree creeper calling, as well as a waxwing, hooded crow, blue tit, and a feeding great spotted woodpecker. Eurasian Jay is quite a common species here in Sweden and it's one I like to really record and they give a wide range of calls. But this bird initially was just sitting there quietly.

Now Eurasian Jay are very vocal and more than just giving the usual raucous calls, they quite often just sit quietly and they give these unusual kind of subsong babbles and whistles. This bird was, was just sitting contentedly. I'm quite sure it was aware of me and it just gave a little bit subsong for a while and then gave some more raucous calls.

So this is Eurasian Jay, a Rastakarn, in northern Stockholm city. 

Now long tailed hits are a very communal species in the winter and they, they rove across the landscape on large feeding blocks. And if you sit quietly and just observe for a while as a field recorder, you can often discern what direction they're moving in. And as they do so, if it's possible to get ahead of them and plant a recorder, you can get a quite nice recording.

And I had tried this on several occasions, but never quite got the results I wanted. But on this particular day in February, everything came together. And there was approximately 20 birds together. I positioned myself ahead of them, quite close to a large oak tree. And luckily for me, the birds just moved into the tree and spent quite a lot of time feeding and calling.

And the result was a quite spectacular recording. By far my best of the species so far. Now there was quite a lot going on in the background here. There's a distant black woodpecker, there's a huddled crow, field fair, great spotted woodpecker. Towards the end of the recording you will hear nuthatch and blue tit.

But throughout the entirety of the recording I was just lucky to be surrounded by feeding long tailed tit. So here it is the recording. Long tailed tit in Sandamar, Sweden. 

So the next recording comes from Kuliskogen in Värmdalen, Sweden. Again, just to the east of Stockholm City. And basically, it's a large area of birch and spruce forest. And on arrival, it was quite windy. And you will hear that in this recording as the wind rushes through the trees. But it does create a nice backdrop or soundscape.

So this is a feeding flock of Eurasian Siskin in the canopy. 

So just before Christmas in 2022, I went with a visitor friend in North Telia. And he's a small cabin in the middle of nowhere in the woods. And what I did was I left an SM4, an automated recorder, just beside his feeding station. And that resulted in this recording of Eurasian Nuthatch. So I haven't left the recorder out for a couple of days.

I just checked the audio and I came across two or three minutes here of just wonderful Nuthatch action. So, so this is Nuthatch feeding quite close to a feeding station at Norrtälje in Sweden. 

Now I'm quite fortunate to live in Sweden for a number of reasons as a sound recorder. It's generally speaking fairly quiet. If you get out into the right areas, there's not a lot of noise. But to be honest, even just sitting here recording my audio, my narration as such, in my apartment, there's constant noise from outside.

Some kids playing, some nearby traffic, and occasionally planes going over. And recorder's life, just trying to get a nice clear recording of anything. But on this occasion, I went down to the Landsort and one of the things I appreciate about the place is it's so remote. It's a small island just south of Ninasam and generally speaking it's nice and quiet.

So on this occasion I just came across this yellow hammer and it was just sitting in a small copse just calling quietly and it makes for quite a nice recording. In the background you will hear Tree Sparrow. Which is also quite a common species on the island, and also a species that has actually declined rapidly around Europe, so it's quite nice to get through these recordings with no background noise.

So, this is Yellowhammer Kall, from Landsort in Sweden. 

And I decided to hang around just a little dusk to see what might happen in the area. It's quite well known for pig meal, but I had no luck on that front. But just as it was getting dark, I came across this group of crested tits, six birds at least, and they were going to roost. And this was something I'd never heard before.

They were quite excited and calling excitedly. And I managed to just get into position and grab a nice recording of the birds as they just ready themselves for sleep. So this is a group of Crested Tit going to roost and I think it's a pretty fitting way to wrap up this section. So this is a group of Crested Tit going to roost at Kuleskogen in Sweden.

And I would say to anybody who's interested in sound recording Do not turn your back on the winter time. It's a fantastic time to get out there. Like I say because the temperature is lower The air is thinner. You can get wonderful, wonderful recordings, even if the species count is definitely lower in the winter. 

It's quite odd sitting here now in my kitchen and actually recording this narration because I'm actually completely plagued by by noise from planes which are passing over Stockholm city. And when most of these recordings were actually taken, it was during the pandemic. And  strangely, I actually appreciated the silence.

There was very little air traffic at the time. And right in the middle of the pandemic in early March, I went up to Arngarn reserve. and what I found there was this bullfinch and I was just calling quietly from the trees. Now bullfinch is a species that stays here for the winter as most sea deers do and I have to say that's pretty much a feature of Sweden in that most insect eating species leave the country in the winter.

And it's pretty much just the bigger birds or the sea leading finches that actually remain. Bullfinch is one of those. They're often loosely referred to as Northern Bullfinch, and they have a slightly different dialect or call to, say, some of the birds that are found in the UK and Ireland. So this is a Bullfinch, and you can probably hear just behind me another plane going over, and it's driving me absolutely insane.

So I managed to get eyes on this bird and it was a beautiful male. It was just sitting in the treetops calling. It's a particularly beautiful call I think, just to look at. Probably one of the most beautiful European birds and they're hard to beat to be honest with you. So this is a Bullfinch calling from Angarn Reserve in Sweden in early March. 

So there you go, folks. That's the first kind of magazine of calls for the podcast. And that's the winter selection and hopefully going forward, I will put together more of these and you will, and I hope you enjoy them. Like I say, I'm pretty much focused on playing longer recordings. I don't want to cut them too short.

You know, I think it's kind of nice to relax and listen to the natural world and for your wellbeing or your interest. And I think, you know, in this. This modern busy world, I get a great amount of joy out of just sitting out in the woods or out in these reserves, listening to the soundscape. It's kind of melancholic for me because I kind of wonder, you know, in a few years time, will that all be there?

And it's very worrying to think that like, you know, in a way these things can, they can disappear and we shouldn't take them for granted, but For me over the last few years I've, I've taken great joy in this kind of thing and I just kind of want to share it with the listeners and any feedback at all from listeners will be much, much appreciated.

So, so I hope you appreciate these recordings basically and that they bring you some joy going forward from here. If any listeners want to leave feedback, it's much appreciated and I will try and accommodate you. So lemme know what you think. And just for now, I hope you've enjoyed that winter section. 



 So there you go folks, that's some wonderful winter sounds from here in Sweden. And once again, I just urge you to get out into the winter and try a little bit of field recording. It can be quite simple, just get yourself a small handheld recorder or even use your phone and just get out there and see what you can get.

It's quite a lovely way to spend an afternoon. 

Now, next up, we're going to introduce you to the subtle dark art of knock migging, which is basically recording at night for migrating birds. And you can do this throughout the year, but it's obviously best when birds are migrating and that's at spring and autumn times. 

This can be done from anywhere folks, so you can do this on your roof, your garden, if you have a balcony on your apartment, you can just stick a recorder out at night, and you can find out what's going over your apartment at night, and believe me,  it can be absolutely incredible. Some of the species I've had over my apartment in Stockholm, I never would have expected. And I really encourage you to give this a go. Once again, this can be done very, very simply with a simple handheld recorder, just left out overnight. And then the next day you check the audio and see what has passed over.

So basically you can think of this following section as an introduction to nocturnal migration and in actual fact it is actually kind of an audio diary of my first year checking out nocturnal migration over my apartment. So I hope you enjoy this . This is Nocmig in Stockholm city.

  Now folks, welcome to the very first Nocmig Corner. And this will be a regular section here at Wild Bird Acoustics going forward.  Now I just wanted to run through what Nocmig actually involves. Very basically, it involves leaving a recorder out overnight in the hope that you will record overflying migrant birds,  quite often from just after dusk until dawn, and then going back later to check the audio.

A lot of nocturnal migrants frequently call during darkness, and this is an excellent way of picking up audio. By analyzing the audio, we can figure out what species are passing over, how many, and so on. For now, I don't want to get too bogged down in the details. But rather, I thought I'd just take you back to the beginnings of my own NocMig journey.

And that began about two and a half, three years ago, during the COVID pandemic. At the time, I was pretty much housebound and basically missed birdwatching and getting out into the field. And then online, I discovered this community. Who are recording from their homes, their balconies, their windows from their apartments, from the roofs, from the back gardens.

It just seemed like an excellent kind of outlet to get through the pandemic. So that's how it happened and my location is right smack bang in the middle of Stockholm city centre. But to cut a long story short, I actually started to record in the spring.  And I was immediately hooked on, I will warn you, not make, can be extremely addictive quite often.

There's a lot of surprises involved, even in a very urban environment. I thought maybe if I shared the audio with you from those early days that you would get a nice picture of what it's like to begin and not make recording. Now, I would stress that if you want to begin, not make recording, you do not need expensive gear.

You don't need a lot of equipment. It can be quite basic. And if you are in an urban environment, do not be put off. It's quite incredible what flies over our cities at night. And in actual fact, I believe that the lights from cities actually attract migrating birds at night. So you can do very, very well in cities and urban environments.

It's safe to say, it doesn't matter where you are, you will be surprised by what is flying over your house at night. So I'm hoping maybe a few people are inspired by this regular section. We'll just press on now and I'll share some audio with you.  One of my hopes is for the podcast to draw the community a little bit closer and hopefully inspire a few listeners to try the hands at field recording.

So for the remainder of this section, I will focus, as I say, on my own early knock make efforts.  Now, when I first began recording at night from my apartment, I would take in the audio after I got back from work the next day and simply go through it. There were a lot of surprise species in the beginning.

It was quite a steep learning curve, and that's quite normal, but one of the earliest surprises was the regular occurrence of common moorhen over the city at night. Now, moorhen is actually quite scarce in Sweden. It's quite a local breeder, and it was absolutely incredible to find these birds regularly flying around, particularly in spring at night on migration.

So my first recording here for you is a nocturnal Moorhen calling as it flies over Stockholm City in the dead of night. Have a listen. 

So that was common moorhen flying around over Stockholm city. It's a classic nocturnal species and there is another surprising rail species that is regular at night and that is water rail.  Now water rail is a surprising long distance migrant here in Europe. And it's actually extremely secretive during the day.

It's quite difficult to see in general, but if you do leave a recorder out for long enough at night, you will almost certainly eventually get one flying over your home.  Now here in Stockholm I had to wait quite a while to get one, but eventually in late April my first came, and I've had several since.

And I gotta tell you folks, the first time I heard a water owl over the city I was absolutely thrilled. And I remember it very well because it was a species I really hoped for. This recording really pulled me into Notchmeg and hooked me, so I'll play this recording for you now. This is a water rail flying over Stockholm City in the middle of the night. 

Now another species, or a group of species rather, that I really hoped to get over the apartment were the flycatchers. And eventually they did prove quite regular in both spring and autumn. So as I say, quite regular, but they were quite difficult for me to tell apart initially. So first up, here's a short recording of a spotted flycatcher.

Over Stockholm city centre. 

So that was Spotted Flycatcher and now I'm going to play a little bit of audio of the very similar European Pow Flycatcher Now quite a similar sound generally speaking and sometimes you need to look for a sonogram especially for a more distant call but with better close recordings and a bit of practice you can do it by ear.

So once again, this is European Pied Flycatcher over Stockholm City. 

Now waders are a particularly interesting group of birds and I really did hope to get as many species as possible here over the city. One of the main species I hoped to get was the Eurasian Curlew. It's fair to say it's a very iconic call and it will be familiar to most European birders. And it wasn't long into the spring before I got my first Eurasian Curlew recording right over my apartment. 

So this is Eurasian curlew flying over the city in the dead of night. Have a listen. 

Now, when you first begin to monitor nocturnal migration, it's quite a steep learning curve. And a lot of the recordings you will find are quite distant and can be difficult to identify. With time, if you stick at it, you'll get better at it. Now, if you analyze the sonograms, which are the visual representations of the calls in software, it can be quite easy to identify many species.

So here's a case in point. This is the brief sharp call of Wood Sandpiper overflying Stockholm City. This proved to be quite a regular nocturnal call over my apartment and is now familiar to me, but at the time it was all part of that learning curve. So once again, this is Wood Sandpiper over Stockholm  City. 

Now another species that proved very regular over the city was European Golden Plover, and it's also a classic nocturnal migrant. So I'll play this short recording now of a typical nocturnal call. European golden plover. 

Now next up is another wading species and one I certainly did not expect to get over the city. This is curlew sandpiper. Now this bird went over in late August and it must have been quite close to the recorder as it left a lovely recording. So I'll play that for you now. This is a migrating curlew sandpiper in late August right over my apartment. 

Now the next species proved to be fairly scarce over the apartment. But I did get quite a few in the autumn, and that is common ring plover. Now on this particular night there was quite a lot of heavy rain, and in general I found that rain was quite good for waders. Obviously I think this is probably because the rain just knocks them lower in the sky and they leave a better recording as a result of being closer to the recorder. 

But here's a nice recording for you of Common Ring Plover just over the rooftops in the middle of the night. 

Now yet another common species here in Stockholm City at night proved to be Oystercatcher. They proved particularly common in late July and August in particular. So this is a typical call from the Eurasian Oystercatcher, again over the apartment here in Stockholm. 

Now waders were quite well represented over Stockholm City, but so too were passerines. And one of the species I discovered was quite regular here, especially in autumn, was a little bit of a surprise. It does seem, however, that they move around a lot in the autumn, and I've had several records now. This is Half Inch.

This was recorded in October, and I'll play a little bit of audio now of a typical nocturnal recording of the species. 

Now, when it comes to migrating nocturnal passerines, an absolute classic species is Tree Pippet. I had a few in spring, but not too many. But then when the autumn came, they proved really regular, and it was very nice to get these birds passing over the apartment. And on occasion, they went over in small groups.

So now I'll play a pretty typical recording of Tree Pipped for you. Once again, straight over the apartment in late August in Stockholm City. 

Perhaps the quintessential nocturnal species when it comes to migrating birds is Red Wing. And here in Europe, they're very, very common. It was no surprise whatsoever in September when these birds started to go over on a very regular basis and had some excellent nights for the species with many hundreds on a couple of nights.

So this is a typical recording of Red Wing overflying the apartment in late October. Have a listen to this folks. 

Another passerine species here, this is Brambling, and they proved fairly regular again in late autumn, especially in October and early November. So I'll play a short recording now of one of my favourite nocturnal calls. So this is Brambling for you, flying over my apartment in late October. 

So as the autumn passed on into November, I didn't expect too much, but one of the nice surprises for me was the fact that snow bunting proved very regular over the city at night. Quite often they just gave their regular chew calls. But on this occasion, I also got the nice ripple call they sometimes give.

So you will hear that in this recording. This is a migrating snow bunting over Stockholm city. in early November. 

Now, when recording Nocmig, it's well worth leaving your recorder to run into the first few hours of light. And this picked up a lot of new species for me here over my apartment. And one of the most prevalent of these was Western Yellow Wagtail. So this is a typical call from the species. Once again, low over the rooftops in early August. 

Now there were plenty of nice surprises here over the city, and one of the best of these was a migrating common rosefinch. This bird passed in early May and was actually giving some song or subsong as it went overhead. So this is a very nice recording of common rosefinch right over the middle of Stockholm City in early May. 

Now, the last recording I have for you in this particular magazine was a major surprise. And it actually went over in early August 2021, just after dawn.  This bird is a two barred crossbill, and it's actually quite a rare species over Stockholm City. The bird flew over quite low down and left a very clear recording, which allowed me to identify it positively.

So once again, this is a very unexpected species and probably one of my best records to date over the city. So this is two barred crossbill in early August. Over Stockholm City. 

Recording over Stockholm City at night actually started me on a journey. If I hadn't have actually done so, I would have never moved on to set up my two listening stations here in Sweden. One of these is currently based on Landsort in the Swedish archipelago here, just south of Stockholm City. And the other is in Västerbotten in Northern Sweden.

Both of these locations have been incredibly interesting and I've got an awful lot of amazing audio out of them and discovered quite a bit about nocturnal migration here in Sweden that was previously unknown.  I'll be sharing a lot of that audio with you here on the podcast. But just for now, give this a go, folks.

It's a wonderful experience to actually find out what's going on right over your head in the middle of the night. You'll be uncovering secrets that you just didn't know were there and it's always, always interesting.  So I hope you've enjoyed this first knock me corner, folks, and I really hope it piques your interest.

That's part of the mission of the podcast, really. And I just want to get people interested in the possibility of sound recording, even if it is very close to home. So as hopefully you will pick up, these are my earliest recordings and they're not the greatest quality in the world. But that's part of the appeal.

I want people to see what it's like when you're just starting out. I hope you've enjoyed this small section here at Knock Me Corner, and I hope it does pique a few people's interest to give it a bash. You never know what's going over your head in the middle of the night, folks. Why not have a listen and see what's happening? 

 So that brings us to the end of another episode of Wild Bird Acoustics, and I hope you've enjoyed it. As always, you can find us on YouTube by simply searching for Wild Bird Acoustics. We do have a mailing list also, and if you want to be part of that folks, you can drop us an email at wildbirdacoustics  at gmail. com Don't be afraid to drop us a like write a review or even become a patron of the podcast and you can do that by clicking On the patreon button in the show header at buzzsprout. So I'd like to thank all of our listeners for tuning in We'll be back in a couple of weeks with more from wild bird acoustics until then Take it easy folks And as always don't be afraid to get out into the field and relax and just listen to the wildlife out there Maybe even do a little bit of field recording of your own. 

We'll talk to you soon folks. Take it easy That's all from wild bird acoustics