The Liquid Strophes of late Spring

 In this, the tenth episode, you shall experience the diurnal and nocturnal auditory soundscape of the wonderful avian sounds of Sweden.
First up, a sound magazine concerning the incredible diurnal sounds of late Spring, as the landscape is filled with the chimes of birds, the various displays of species intent on breeding and setting up territory, here in Scandinavia. Experience the wonder of a landscape filled with bird song.
 Secondly, I will return to early Spring and share the secrets of the hidden world of nocturnal migration. In the magazine you will hear the calls of migrant birds in the dead of night. These sounds are a hidden library of often long travelling species, intent on returning to the breeding grounds in order to meet future mates and reproduce, an instinct which see's our night skies filled with the calls of these avian travellers each year, a testament to the incredible resilience of nature and the inherrent drive to return to the breeding grounds, each calender year. Experience how nocturnal, automative recording opens up such a hiiden world to our often oblivious ears...

Transcript

  📍  Now, hello there, and you're very welcome once again to Wild Bird Acoustics. I'm your host, Alan Dalton, and I'll be taking you on a journey into sound. 

 Here we are again. It's Episode 9 of Wild Bird Acoustics. And once again, I'd like to thank you all for tuning in to listen. 

And in this episode, I'm going to be first covering the late spring period in May here in Sweden. And what a wonderful time it is to actually get out in the field and record. 

Now late spring is incredible here in Sweden. A lot of birds have arrived and the woodlands, wetlands and all habitats are absolutely booming with sound. Now by May, a lot of migrants have returned here to Sweden, the majority in fact, and the result is an incredible soundscape.

And that doesn't really matter which habitat you're in. The place is just full of birds. As a result that it's a really busy time for me. And I like to spend as much time as possible in the field. 

 Now, you often hear the saying that life is too short in some ways, and  it seems to me that that's quite correct because every year in spring, it seems to fly by every year for me, that kind of period of four weeks where there's just birds everywhere.

And I only have the weekends to record really as I work a busy day job and that means I really have to pick and choose where I go at this time of the year. There's so much going on it can be quite difficult. 

 Now sometimes what I do is I go out into certain habitats and maybe look at woodland species or wetland habitats on other occasions I will actually chase down a certain bird that I've heard has turned up  it's quite nice to get species that are scarce or rare  sometimes that's just a species i'm particularly interested in as it might be a particularly nice singing species and have a really nice sound magazine here for you now of the entire period of late spring 

As usual, we're just going to get stuck straight in. So this is the late spring period here in the Stockholm area in Sweden. And once again, I really hope you do enjoy this.

 Now as soon as May arrives in Sweden, a lot of migrants have returned, and this late spring period is one of the absolute best times to be out sound recording here in Sweden. And for me, it's a really busy time of the year, so I like to get out as often as possible. And in this small section, I'm going to share some of my favorite calls from last year.

Now because of the time of year, a lot of these recordings are very, very busy in the background, and where possible, I will try and let you know what's going on in the background. But for now, we'll start with a common species, which is pretty much typical of early summer, late spring. And it's a species well known all over Europe, possibly one of the most iconic singers of all at this time of the year, and that is Common Cuckoo.

Common Cuckoo is widespread here in Sweden, although it has declined quite a bit. You will hear common cuckoo from May onwards. And this bird was recorded in a place called Norra Jorgården, which is very, very close to the city center of Stockholm. On this particular morning, I got up very, very early and I was looking for a wood warbler.

But as I was doing so, the common cuckoo began to call. Now obviously this is an easy species for anybody to identify, but it still is a wonderful, wonderful sound. And in the background here, you will hear Common Blackbird, Grey Tit, Songthrush and Wood Pigeon. So the recording next, here is Common Cuckoo at Norry York Garden in Sweden. 

bye for now.  Now in 2022 I had a number of species which I really wanted to record for the first time. Very, very high up the list was Gargony. Now Gargony is a summer migrant and it returns to Sweden around late April and by May they start to display. They're actually quite a secret of species and they can be difficult to record and I decided to make my way to a place called Angarn Reserve which is located north of Stockholm city and it's an excellent site for these birds.

On arrival, the marsh was really, really busy. It took me a while, but eventually I located some Gargony, and as luck would have it, they were courting a female. Now first up, I'll give you a very, very short recording, just so you can get your ear in on the call. And this is a short recording of a male Gargony calling to a female. 

Have a listen. 

So that's the low, croaking call of male gargony, and it almost sounds like an amphibian, a frog or a toad or some such. Now there was two males in the area and one female, and the female was being chased around by both males, but only one of them was particularly vocal. I made a longer recording, and there's quite a lot, as I say, going on in the background.

The marsh was really, really busy. And in the background here, you will hear coot, snipe display, grey legged goose, and also green sandpiper. This recording was taken with the Tlingit parabola, and so I was able to hone in on the male gargony and isolate the sound a little bit. It's a very nice recording, and I very much typify as a good wetland here in spring.

There's so much going on in this recording, which is a little bit longer. So I hope you enjoy this. This is male gargony. 

Now another species I really wanted to record in 2022 was grasshopper warbler and this had proved quite difficult. They're quite local here in Sweden and I just hadn't come across one in a few years. So I was absolutely delighted when I went up to Bråserve on the 22nd of May with the parabola and started recording.

And out of nowhere, a grasshopper appeared. warbler started to reel in a small ditch. I made my way over to the bird quickly and started to record before it went back to ground. Now these warblers are a member of the locust tail family and they're typified by their reeling calls or songs. Now also here in the background, you will hear singing Skylark, calling jackdaw, white throat and also a sedge warbler towards the end of the recording. 

May in Sweden sees the return of one of my absolute favourite species, and that is Ictorian Warbler. Now Ictorian Warblers breed in mature broadleaf forests, and if you can find a nice bit of woodland in May, you will come across them singing. Now the reason I'm so fond of them is their incredible mimics, and possibly behind Marsh Warbler or Blythe's Reed Warbler, they're probably the most accomplished mimics, and they can be quite astounding.

Now, this bird was breeding in a small area of forest at Brough Reserve. It is quite fantastic to listen to this. Now, mimicry is quite an interesting area, and in species like Ictarine Warbler, what the males do is, they quite often serve as an echo chamber for the surrounding environment. So what they do is, they incorporate the songs and calls of other species in their own songs.

So here, for example, the bird will start with an excellent rendition of Black Woodpecker. As it goes on, you will hear the calls represented in its song of Blackbird, Sedge Warbler, Calling Jackdaw, Calling You Feel Fair Alarm, Great Spotted Woodpecker, Missile Thrush Flight Call, Starling Song, and also Songthrush Song.

It's quite amazing to listen to really, and I never tired of it. Also in the background here singing themselves are Blue Tit, Wood Pigeon, Tree Pippet, Goldfinch. Rhineck and Ringneck to Pheasant. Now this is recorded with a Talinga parabola and it's an amazing piece of kit for isolating individual singers.

It actually amplifies the song and also helps to isolate the target so it's one of my go to pieces of kit. It is perhaps a little expensive but, but I've had mine now for over 12 years and it really has served me well. It leads to really wonderful recordings. So this is Yggdrasil Warbler in full song at Bro Reserve in Sweden.

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Now so far we've had songs from passerines and a duck species, but also may you get waders breeding here in Sweden. And one of the species I had targeted for 2022 were Little Ring Plover, and I was delighted to come across this pair of displaying birds on the 24th of April at Norra Järvefeltet, just north of Stockholm city.

On this occasion, I used my binaural recorder. and put it down close to the birds, and although it was raining a little bit, the birds eventually approached the recorder and began to display. In the background here you can hear Greenfinch, Chaffinch and Wood Pigeon. 

Now Brough Reserve north of Stockholm City on the 22nd of May was a new recording venue for me and I tried to do that quite a bit in 2022 which was get into new areas and new habitats and see what happens. On this occasion you will hear a very close up recording and the species involved is a sedge warbler.

The bird is in full song at very close range. Again, this is recorded with a Tlingit parabola. In the background you will hear blue tit. ring necked pheasant, singing reed bunting, and also singing Skylark. Again, this is a few minutes long, but because it's such a close up recording, I'm going to let it run for a while.

So sit back and relax, and enjoy the sound of Sedge Warbler in full song. 

Now we're going to take a trip back to Angern Reserve north of Stockholm City for another duck species and on this occasion it's Northern Shoveler. Now again, on the same day that I recorded Gargany, I was looking for Northern Shoveler in display, and it's a display that I had wanted to record for some time.

Again, I was lucky on this occasion, there were two males and a female in the area yet again, and the male shoveler was actually chasing a female around, calling constantly. Now in this recording you will hear the shoveler as a deep guttural call. It's quite a long recording this, and there's a lot going on in the background.

As I've already mentioned, wetlands in May are extremely busy places here in Sweden. And in the background you will hear calling mallard, grey legged goose. The display of Lapwing, Snipe displaying overhead, Meadow Pippet, Calling Male Gargony and also Calling Yellow Wagtail. So a lot to take in here, but it really does make for an absolutely fantastic soundscape.

This is Northern Shoveler in full display at Angarn Reserve in Sweden. 

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Now, at the time I recorded this next recording, this was also a new species for me. I made an effort to go to Augusta Reserve in order to secure a decent recording of a night singing species, and that species is Spotted Crake. I found one bird just after dusk as it began to call. I did get some lovely recordings of that bird, but it was only later in the night when it was quite dark, as I was returning to the car park, that I came across another displaying bird.

This one was closer to the main road, but things were very quiet at this stage and there was no traffic. The bird was extremely close to me displaying in long grass and sedges, and I got a remarkable recording with very little background noise. So today this is definitely my clearest recording of a spotted crake.

So this is Spotted Crake in display at night at Augusta Reserve, south of Stockholm City. 

Now spring here in Sweden wouldn't be the same without the song of Thrush Nightingale, and they are very, very widespread. And I found this bird singing on the 22nd of May at Brough Reserve, in the middle of the day.  I'm quite sure it returned quite recently, as it hadn't been reported in the previous couple of days.

But I found the bird in a thicket of Blackthorn, a pretty typical habitat for the species.  Also in the background here you will hear the song of Willow Warbler, Ictarine Warbler, Wood Pigeon, Distant Grey Lag Goose, a Blue Tit and some nearby Common Tern.  This site was quite educational for me actually and, and I decided after this that the more new venues I get into the better, and this will give me a wider range of species, and it just leads to a nice bit of variation for field recording.

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Now I have one more recording to share with you from the late spring period last year and on this occasion I went to a place called Toro. Now Toro is situated just south of a small village called Nynäsam, which is due south of Stockholm city. And the habitat there is just sandy, low pine forest, but it's excellent for a couple of species.

And one of these is tree pippet. I went out there on the 8th of May and eventually, early in the morning, I found this lovely tree pipit singing and it made for a beautiful recording as there was absolutely no noise in the area. So this is the tree pipit in full song at Toro, Sweden. 

So there you go folks, there's a selection of recordings from the late spring period here in Sweden. I will say that each year it seems to go by quicker and quicker, that period of May and early June, when there's so much going on and I always find myself kind of Where do I go? What do I concentrate on?

What kind of habitats should I seek out? But it's just one of those things. You need to get out there and make the most of this time of the year because there's just so much going on. As you will hear in many of those recordings, it's just an incredible soundscape here in Sweden and there's so many species to choose from.

There's nothing better than just simply getting out into a bit of habitat and walking around and seeing what you come across. Over the years, I've found this a very, very nice way to just spend a few hours or half a day or even a full day. As a general rule, the best time is early in the morning before there's too many people around or too much traffic.

But happily here in Sweden, this can be mitigated if you get out into the middle of nowhere, where noise is at a minimum. However, it should be noted that even in urban environments, if you get out at night or early in the morning, you will often be surprised at just how quiet this time can be, and it offers a great opportunity for the sound recordist. 

So once again, take full advantage of late spring and get out as much as you can. I hope you've enjoyed these recordings. I know I certainly enjoyed getting out there to make them.  



 📍 Now, next Up on Wild Bird Acoustics, we're going to take a little trip back in time to the early spring period, and once again, we're going to return to the nocturnal migration section known as Knock, Make, Corner.

And I just wanted to put a little section together of typical early spring. Spring, nocturnal calls, and all of these come from Landsort in Sweden, which is my main listening station here at the moment. And all of these recordings were recorded in March or April, and it's just kind of an introduction to that period.

Now typically early spring isn't quite so busy as say the autumn, but still you get some lovely species and I've managed to get some nice recordings in the last few years from Landsort. And I just wanted to share some of those with you. 

 Now just to give you a little bit of background on how I started recording on Landsort in Sweden. I actually did my first Nockmig recording right over my apartment here in Stockholm city and way back at the start of the podcast in episode two I kind of introduced that I gave you a small introductory sell magazine on knock make. 

Now what that involved was me actually kind of working out how I could actually record from the second story of an apartment building here in Stockholm City. And it was quite difficult, but eventually I came up with a solution  the solution was a Manfrotto arm 

and I used that to support a wildlife acoustics SM mini recorder and this was a bit of a godsend. I could just leave it to actually record at certain times from dusk until dawn and in that manner I was able to record of my apartment 

Now having recorded over spring and autumn at my apartment, I started to think what if I could actually get a recorder out somewhere that was really, really good for migration 

And there's a bird observatory in Lanzarote, and what I actually did was, I approached the board of the observatory and asked them would it be possible to leave a recorder on the roof of the observatory right through from March until November the following year, and they very kindly agreed to this, and what I did was, I just went down the next March and stuck a recorder on the roof,  and I'm eternally grateful to the staff at Lands Ark Observatory for allowing me to do that, as it really allowed me to get a wonderful picture of migration at the site.

Previous to that, nocturnal migration had never really been monitored at the site. And it was quite eye opening when I actually opened up the files and started to go through things.

And that first year was very, very exciting, as you can imagine. 

Now to cut a long story short, I'm now at the end of my third complete year monitoring nocturnal migration at the site, at Landsort, and it has been quite incredible, and it has allowed me to build up a wonderful library of nocturnal migration audio. 

Now, one of the best things about this project was I was able to provide the Landsart board with some wonderful statistics on what is actually going on at night over the station.

And I intend to continue this study for at least two more years.

 Now it's already proved a worthwhile project and for you listeners it means that I can share a lot of lovely audio with you of nocturnal species from the site.  

Now lands are probably won't be familiar to most of you as a location, but it's located just south of place called Nina Sam here in Sweden. And it's right at the bottom of the Stockholm archipelago. 

And basically the topography of this site means that it funnels a lot of migration and I think a lot of birds probably come over the Åland Islands from Finland, follow the coast down and they end up funneling over Landsort and there is a lighthouse on the island just south of the bird observatory and I think this really kind of adds to the attraction of the island at night and a lot of birds funnel over. 

, it's well known as a fantastic diurnal site and in the autumn a huge amount of birds funnel down the island, but like I say this was the first time there was a long term study on nocturnal migration on the island and it's been wonderful to actually open this up. 

The results have been quite amazing and I'm actually close to 100, 000 calls logged at the site which is quite incredible of just over 100 species. 

Before I start the sound magazine, I'd just like to thank Håkon down at Landsarth Bird Observatory and indeed all of the board of Landsarth Bird Observatory for allowing me to place the recorder on the roof. It's been quite fantastic and I hope you will enjoy this small sound magazine. So without further ado, this is early spring nocturnal migration at Landsort Bird Observatory in Sweden.

  Welcome, welcome to Nockmig Corner once again folks and we are going to have a look at the island of Landsort on this occasion  and in particular we're going to be looking at spring migration.  Now Landsort is the most southerly of the islands in the Stockholm archipelago and it's about two kilometers long and very narrow just a few hundred meters wide.

And there's a lighthouse at the south end. Now just back a few hundred meters from the south tip of the island is the bird observatory, Landsort Foggel station.  And since 2021, I've had an autonomous recorder, a wildlife acoustics SM mini recorder, On the roof of the observatory. And I've been recording from the beginning of March until the middle of November in each year.

And the results have been absolutely fantastic. I think I'm up to about 70, 000 bird calls in total here in the last three years. And there's over 100 species of bird recorded so far. And that's all at night in the hours of proper darkness.  Now, as this is the beginning of spring, I thought it would be a good time to just run through some spring recordings with you.

And that's what we're going to do today.  Now, just to remind you before I start, for those who haven't maybe listened to it, there is an introduction to Nochmig or Nocturnal Migration recording in episode two of the podcast, if you want to go and listen to that.  But right now, let's go and listen to some spring recordings from Landshark. 

Now, the first recording I have for you today is a classic Nocturnal Migrant. And that is coot.  Now coot is very, very common in the UK and Ireland, but here in Sweden, out on the Swedish archipelago, it's actually quite scarce, and there's not an awful lot of diurnal records on Land's Earth. But every year in spring, I get a handful of birds flying over in the night. 

Now if you do take up knock mic recording, this is probably one of the species that you will get quite regularly. They can be very, very variable, but this is pretty much a typical call from a passing coot.  Have a listen. 

Now, on the 11th of April, 2023, I recorded a species for the very first time after three years of recording, and I was absolutely delighted to get the species. The species I'm talking about is Eurasian Bittern.  Now Bitterne is very, very rare on Landsart. There are only a handful of records  and this represents the first Eurasian Bitterne in many years.

And it's quite a good recording as well. So we'll have a listen to that now. This is Bitterne over Landsart on the 11th of April, 2023.  This was quite a special record for me here at this site this spring. 

Now another classic spring species at Landsort, which peaks in April, is Golden Plover. And I particularly like this call in a nocturnal context. It's quite a beautiful plaintive kind of whistle. And like I say, they're quite regular in April and again in the autumn in Landsort. But right now I'm going to play you a particularly nice recording of a passing group of golden plover in April 2022. 

Now another very regular wader species at Landsort is common ring plover and I get hundreds of birds every year and quite often they go over quite low and leave a nice recording. So next up is common ring plover. This is another nice recording and this is from the 27th of April 2022. 

Now nocturnal recording or nockpicking as it's known increased dramatically in popularity during the COVID pandemic and the reasons naturally where the borders were housebound. And in order to kind of have an outlet, a lot of people started recording of their houses in their gardens at night. And one of the main discoveries, if you like, of that period in the UK was an overland passage of Common Scoter.

Now Common Scoter is very regular at Landsort and it starts going through in April and peaks around the last week of the month. Birds continue to pass through the early part of May, and then there's a small return passage from late July. 

So this has become very much a classic nocturnal migrant and the calls are very low on the spectrogram, very low frequency and they're quite distinctive once you learn them. So I'll play a recording now for you of a passing group of common scouter at Lanzert.  Now if you listen carefully to this recording you will also hear another species which is actually displaying in the area at night and that is woodcock.

So, quite a nice recording once again, and we'll have a listen to that now. 

Now, before I move on from Common Scouter, I'm going to play you another recording of the same species. And this one is very interesting because among the flock is a single Coot Calling. So, this is a very, very nice recording, actually, of Common Scouter, and it's a very large group passing. And like I say, in the middle, you will hear the calls of a Eurasian coot. 

And also towards the end of the recording, for those of you with sharp ears, there is a single faint redwing call. So we'll have a listen to that recording straight away. 

On Landsort, passerine species are quite limited, really, in spring. One of those that does pass in very, very small numbers is Skylark. This was recorded on the 4th of April, 2021. Have a listen. 

Now, wildfowl have actually been surprisingly scarce over the years on Landsort, but one of the regular species is Eurasian teal. And in this next recording, you're going to hear the calls of male teal, which are the kind of high, kind of,  which are the kind of low, mellow whistle noise, which is a kind of a low, mellow, single whistle. 

Now, in this recording, you're going to hear the calls of both the male and the female and the male is this kind of low kind of note, a single kind of mellow. I wouldn't describe it as a whistle, but the female is much more raucous and, you know, sounds more like a duck or what one  Or perhaps what one might expect of a duck, kind of a raucous kind of quacking noise.

And there's a series of those calls here from a female bird. We'll have to listen to that now. This is Eurasian tail at Landsort on the 1st of May, 2023. 

Now next on this knock mid corner section is audio of a Hooper Swan.  And this was recorded on the 9th of March 2021. And it's one or two birds just slowly passing over the islands. So Hooper Swan is a very kind of distinctive species. And it passes over in small numbers in both spring and again in the autumn. 

So we'll have a listen now to Hooper Swan. 

The next species is yet another wader and it is also another classic nocturnal migrant. And it is Common Snipe. Now Common Snipe is a very common braider all over Sweden. And they return in massive numbers, so it's not surprising really that they are regular on the island on migration. I'm going to play a recording now of probably two individuals passing over the station in late March in 2021. 

Now on Landsort, geese species are quite scarce. There is one regular species and that is barnacle goose.  Now barnacle goose has increased dramatically in Scandinavia in the last 20 or so years. And the reason is an escaped feral population. Which has multiplied rapidly and now there are masses of birds, and these birds actually migrate, they don't stay in Sweden, and they leave in the autumn and return in the spring.

So quite often in the spring I will get small groups and sometimes large flocks of barnacle goose. For now, I'm just going to play you a short recording of a small group of passing barnacle goose. 

Now another regular species in early spring at Landsort at night is a lapwing. And these birds return early, in fact they're one of the earliest returning migrants and every year in March they just flood through quickly in large numbers as the thaw begins. And quite often they'll appear just before the break up of the ice.

This species peaks at Landsort in mid April and although numbers aren't huge I do get them regularly around mid month. So I'm going to play a nice recording now of some passing lapwing in the middle of the night. And this was recorded on the 14th of April, 2022. 

Now in episode two, I did an introduction to knockmigging, and that was based in Stockholm city. And in that sound magazine, I played a recording of water rail. And guess what folks, water rail is also regular way out in the archipelago  in spring. And incredibly now I've had several records on migration, and it really is quite amazing.

It's just not a species, I suppose, that I ever associated with migration. And it's amazing to think that these birds are moving at night in large numbers. But it's true, and even at Landsort, I record them regularly in spring, and I have several records annually. So this is quite a nice recording of the species.

It's quite short, but this is a water ale over Landsort in April 2021. 

Now, every Nockmig site has its own characteristics and perhaps special species. And being out on the Stockholm archipelago puts my recorder right smack bang in the middle of the flight line for a very nice sea duck species. And that is a long tailed duck. Now, I wouldn't imagine a lot of sites get long tailed duck on migration at night.

But here in Sweden, there's a very, very strong spring passage of this species. And I do get the odd bird coming over the island at night calling. So this is a wonderful recording, folks. This is a long tailed duck just coming over the recorder in the middle of the night. And in this recording, you will hear the bird approaching from the distance before going right over the recorder. 

So there we are, that is the last bit of audio for you in this small section about knockmigging in early spring. And I would encourage you guys, you know, if you have a back garden or a balcony, Or you can get a recorder onto your roof. It's quite simple to actually record at night.  What you need is a small digital recorder.

It can be as simple as that. You can just place it into a bucket or a basin and leave it out overnight.  To protect it from rain, you can actually just stretch cling film over the bucket or basin. And that doesn't really affect the audio that you record. If  you're going to buy a digital recorder and you're going to use it for knockmeg, I would actually make sure that it has a decent battery life.

And the longer the better. Obviously, if you're leaving it out overnight, you would ideally want it to last for seven or eight hours. But with some recorders, you can also use an external battery pack. 

So food for thought maybe for a little project for the spring. And why not try and find out what's flying over your home.  But failing that folks, I do hope you have enjoyed this small knock mid corner here at Wild Bird Acoustics. As already mentioned in the podcast, we will be returning to this section quite regularly.

So there's going to be lots more nocturnal migration for you here in Wild Bird Acoustics.  Once again, folks, thanks for listening.  

 So there you go everybody that wraps up this episode 9 of Wild Bird Acoustics. And once again I'd like to thank you all for tuning in to listen. 

 In the next episode of wild bird acoustics, we have a wonderful interview for you. I won't say too much more about it, but I think you will enjoy it very much. And also we will have some wonderful action from the summer period here in Sweden when bird life is absolutely abounding and the soundscape is quite incredible.

So once again, this is your host Alan Dalton, and I'd like to thank you all for tuning in and we'll see you next time at wild bird acoustics. 

 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.

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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.