Golden Brown; The Sounds of Autumn

In this episode of Wild Bird Acoustics, I focus on the sounds on Autumn. In the initial sound magazine, I will take listener's to the coast of Västerbotten in Northern Sweden. I will share a collection of field recordings of local species, as well as passage migrants, revealing a cross section of the incredible sounds to be expected in this incredible part of the world, during the busiest period for migration of many species of bird.
 The second sound magaizine will feature visible migration and the calls of migrant species as they move southwards along the coastline at Landsort, Sweden. This premier site for active migration has provided me with some wonderful audio of migrant species over the past few years and here, in the penultimate episode of my first podcast season, I take a deep dive into the sounds of those species. This is a celebration of the autumn period and I hope it will whet listeners appetite for the coming autumn, wherever your location...

Transcript

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

 No, you're all very welcome once again, to wild bird acoustics. And as I sit here, it's, mid-May 2024. This is episode 19 of the podcast. Now I have a nice Automall kind of message for you today. Lots of Automall sounds and I just wanted to concentrate on the autumn. 

This episode will be going out in the middle of August. And autumn is a time that all boarders greatly look forward to. And I just wanted to concentrate on some of the sounds of the autumn, just to get you in the mood for the upcoming autumn on get you all excited. 

And I think a lot of these calls and sounds will be quite useful to those of you who would like to , just refresh yourselves with some of these sounds.  

Before I go any further, I'd like to give a shout out to a couple of listeners to mark. 

I'm sorry, you don't have your second name and also to Kevin McCormack for buying me a coffee back in may. Very generous and very much appreciated. 

Those two donations actually managed to pay for my hosting costs for the podcast for a couple of months. So very, very much appreciated. Um, if you'd like to donate, to buy may copy, you will find that at the podcast header page. A pole sprout. And also on the YouTube channel wild bird acoustics. 

 Now folks, how time fliers are. This is the penultimate episode of season one of oil particles ticks. And accompanied how quickly that time has gone by we've flown through an entire season. 

 I have decided to settle on 20 episodes per season. , the reason for that is it's quite a lot of work putting this podcast together. The time, actually in the studio as such. Isn't that bad, but actually getting out there and getting the recordings takes an awful lot of fieldwork, as you can probably appreciate. But never fear. 

I'm actually walking or hopping, working already on season two. And I can tell you that it's going to be a lot more polished and I'll have a little bit of news for you. Actually after this first sound magazine. 

 Now as you'll know, by now, I don't like to waffle too much at the beginning of the podcast case, you guys lose interest. And I do want to get into the first sound magazine straightaway. Now this time around, it is actually from all of my favorite places.  One week regular listeners here at the podcast will already be familiar with. And that is the island of Halligan, which is located in Vasta button. And Northern Sweden.  So in this episode, I wanted to concentrate on the autumn. And what I thought I'd do is whisky away up north and concentrate on some of the wonderful sounds that 

I've actually recorded on Halligan in the autumn. 

Now a few years back, I started to visit the island regularly around the end of September, just to do a little bit of recording and I fell and it's a wonderfully quiet up there. There's very few people up there and natural factors, only one resident in the entire area. It's a tiny bit of road noise from a very, very distant road early in the morning, just before rush hour, which is about knowing care as a morning. And apart from that, it's just beautifully quiet and that makes it an incredible place to seven record. Now the sounds in the autumn are quite remarkable. And I just love getting up there at that time of the year. So without me for it or to deal, we would play that for you now. And this is autumn on Halligan in Northern Sweden. I'll be enjoying this folks. 

  So here we are at Boil Board Acoustics once again, and in this short magazine I'm going to concentrate on autumn, and this is a period that I particularly like to go about birding. One of the highlights of the autumn for me is getting up to Vastobotton, and I visit the small island of Hallagern where I have a summer cottage, and I spend at least a week up there monitoring visible migration and whatever birds happen to be in the area. 

And one of the big birds Plus sides of being in Sweden, and especially up in Northern Sweden in the autumn is there's absolutely no noise pollution. There's no dogs, summer houses are closed. Most people are just not in the area. And it just leads to wonderful, wonderful soundscapes and great recording opportunities.

And I'm just going to run through a few recordings that I've made over the last couple of autumns whilst I've been on the island. Now we're going to kick off with Northern Raven, and this is a pretty simple recording just of Northern Raven passing over the island calling. So this is a nice early morning atmospheric recording of Northern Raven at Hallegern in northern Sweden.

 So that was Northern Raven flying over the island there and the next recording came early October and it involves a species that passes through the island in autumn in good numbers. On this particular morning, it was quite windy and in the woods behind my cabin, there was a large flock of these birds and they were just sitting giving their typical calls, which always reminds me of a doorbell and the species I'm talking about here is Bohemian Waxwing. 

Now in many parts of Europe, this bird appears in winter and, uh, And for some birders, it's not seen every winter. So for example, in Britain and the UK, birds might be largely absent in one winter. And then when the berry crop fails here in Northern Sweden, they may actually travel further afield in search of food.

And in those winters, you'll find them in good numbers. Now this is a fruit eating species as I say, but on the island quite often they just pass through. But I was lucky enough this morning to have a large flock just sitting in the trees calling. And although there was a little bit of noise, it's all natural noise in this recording.

So in the background you will hear wind moving through the trees and a large flock of bohemian waxwing calling. So have a listen. 

Now autumn is a time for migration on the island and I generally get up quite early in the morning and try to be on site at the north of the island to watch for migration just before dawn. And as the sun rises quite often the birds will start to power over. But if the weather is just right in some mornings you can get large numbers of migrants grounded on the island and one of the most typical of these in autumn is Songthorough. 

Now on this particular morning it was still dark as I made my way through the woods and I was just struck by the amount of song thrush that were just moving around and calling quietly in the woods, in the spruce trees and also from the ground. There were probably about 70 or 80 birds grounded on the island that day.

And rather than just push on, I decided to stop and just record these birds. So this is um, a large number of Grounded Songthrush just before dawn in early October at Hallegern, Sweden. 

Now Hallegern's position in northern Sweden means that you do get some northern specialities on the island. And autumn is a good time for some of these. One of my favourites is grey headed woodpecker. Grey headed woodpecker is quite a scarce European species, and indeed it took me quite a long time to actually see them here in Sweden.

But up in the Vasterbotten they're quite common. Now I was keen to record this species well and on this particular occasion I looked out because as I quite often do when I'm actually having a bit of breakfast or lunch, I will actually leave my parabola out just recording passively. On this occasion it really paid off.

In this recording you'll hear a grey headed woodpecker which is actually on the mainland at first and eventually it actually flies right over the parabola. So first of all you hear the bird just moving around on the mainland calling, and then there's a little bit of action from some bullfinch and some chaffinch before the bird just flies straight over the parabola.

So have a listen to this. This is grey headed woodpecker at Hallegern Vasterbotten in Sweden. 

Now another classic woodpecker species here in Sweden is Black Woodpecker. It visits the island occasionally in the autumn. There's at least one or two pairs in the area and, although they cover a large area on the mainland, occasionally they do drop over and feed on the island as there's been a little bit of tree fall over the last couple of autumns.

And on this occasion I just came across this bird giving a contact call, Mahispris tree, and it's quite a nice recording. Quite short, but here you go, it's Black Woodpecker at Vasterbotten in Sweden. 

Now autumn is a great time for passerines at Hallegirn, and quite often while I'm actually watching visible migration, there will be other birds feeding on the island, or typically just moving through the island. And on this particular occasion, there was large numbers of common redpoll moving through the island, as is typical of the species on migration.

Now a lot of the time when you're observing visible migration, some species will go straight over and they won't stop. They will just go over the island. But often, common red ball I find will actually land or start to feed and move through the island and then just take off again and continue south. And on this particular morning I noticed a lot of birds were moving through a small area of alder, feeding for a couple of minutes and just moving on.

And what I decided to do was just take my binaural array and a small zoom HN1 recorder and just place it in the area of alders where the birds were moving through. And eventually I got some birds come in and they just started to feed right around the recorder. And the result was this lovely recording of some feeding common redpoll in alder and a few blue tit and I think maybe a bullfinch in this one.

So this is a nice binaural recording of common redpolls feeding in alder. And as always, I recommend that you wear headphones when you're listening to these recordings as it really improves the experience. So we'll have a listen to the recording now to this common redpoll and blue tit feeding in alder in autumn at Hallegern in Sweden. 

Uh huh. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 

Now another species that's present in the autumn around the island is Hooper swan and we actually have a breeding pair on the island, quite close, in a small bay in the summertime. And they're still present in the autumn when I get up there. Now I find in the autumn that they can get quite agitated as birds fly over on migration and occasionally small parties will stop off and start to feed in the shallow areas around the island.

And this really seems to wind up the local birds and they get quite agitated. On this particular morning, the local pair were actually moving around quite a bit and they were chasing birds away that had strayed onto what they consider is their territory. It's quite a nice bit of audio. I just placed a parabola on the shore and you can hear the waves just lapping against the rocks as the birds pass calling.

So this is the local pair of Hooper Swans just flying past the parabola early one morning in early October, two years ago. 

Now I'm going to return briefly to grey headed  woodpecker. And on this particular occasion, there was a couple of birds on the island feeding and they were quite vocal. Before I changed, they weren't giving the usual call, but rather this kind of single note. And I was quite anxious to get a recording of it.

And the birds were not happy to play ball for the longest time. And eventually what I decided to do was just leave the binaural recorder. in the forest in one of the areas they seem to return to quite a bit and in the end I left it there for three or four hours and went back and checked the audio later.

Now fieldcraft can be quite important when you're actually recording birds and every time I tried to actually go in and record the birds with the parabola, they actually seen me and they just left the area. So it was a no brainer just to kind of leave a passive recorder in the area and just see what happened.

And on this occasion, I just left it down for three hours in an area that the birds seem to return to and check the audio later. And I looked down and got a lovely recording here of feeding grey headed woodpecker. So this is a little bit of a longer recording of the species. So I hope you enjoyed this one. 

Now again, there's a lot of ways to go about getting a recording of a certain species. And again, in this case, passive recording won the day. And the species involved here is willow tit.  Now, willow tit is not particularly common anywhere in Sweden, but they are widespread, but they can be difficult to record as they tend to range over fairly wide areas, but they do actually visit the island on occasion in autumn.

And on this particular morning, there was at least two birds in the island and I was quite anxious just to get a recording. And again, I was chasing the birds around early in the morning with the parabola, but they just kept moving away ahead of me. So I was chasing the birds around with the parabola for most of the morning and they were just ahead of me all the time.

They could see me. They were just getting out of the way and I couldn't really get the recording I wanted. So once again, I decided to take my binaural array and just leave it down on a small stump in the woods and just let time do the job for me. Let the equipment work. Whilst that was going on, I just went off and Got a bite to eat, did a bit of bird watching elsewhere and later on I came back and checked the recorder.

I was pretty confident I would get something because I could hear that we're in the area from the far side of the island and sure enough when I checked the audio it had worked. So here's a nice bit of audio of Willow Tit on Halligarn Island in Västerbotten, Sweden. 

Now the final recording in this small magazine is one of Great Alarm, and that alarm belongs to Songthorche. And on this particular morning I was birdwatching at the north end of the island, I was just watching migrants going over. And I could see that there was a young goshawk on the island and was haunting fairly regularly around the place, seemingly without success.

And in the forest I had placed my binaural recorder looking for a willow tit, and that was the recording that you just heard. And that's it. And at about half ten in the morning, um, I suddenly heard a bit of a racket and it was an alarming song thrush. And I quietly knew that it was very close to my recorder.

So I was quite happy about that. And later on when I checked the audio, I had a lovely recording of an alarming song thrush. And quite close to the recorder, there were indeed the telltale signs of a goshawk kill. And it seemed that the bird had taken a blackbird, plucked it on a post and just carried it away.

So, This probably happened about 30 meters from my recorder, but actually I didn't get any kind of vocalization or noise from that attack at all. But I did get this nice alarm call of Songthrush. So just to wind up the magazine, this is an alarm calling Songthrush on Hallegern in Sweden. 

So there you go folks, I hope you enjoyed the magazine. And that was just a collection of audio from the autumn period on Hallegern in Sweden. The place is just magical in the autumn and it's so quiet. I'm sure I'll just keep returning to this over and over again over the years and sharing more audio with you.

So that was the autumn period, the final week of September and first couple of days of October over the last couple of years at Hallegern in Sweden. I hope you enjoyed the magazine. 

 There you go, folks that was autumn on Halligan. It's a very special place. And I think he can kind of pick up from the audio. The place is absolutely incredible at that time of the year. So many passage, Morgan's just moving through the island and it's wonderful just to get up every morning and just see what's on the island changes every day. 

Of course, it's very, very much dependent on the weather, but in good conditions,  such as a load. So Wesley  you got some locally, overhead, visible migration. And then of course, if there's a sleaze it'll sweep or it's across the Baltic sea cross, some Finland. Um, for the wrist and there's always a chance of rarity or a fall of migrants. 

 I've had all kinds of days on the island. Some are quiet, some are very, very busy. But no two are ever the same. And I just love being up there. During the autumn. 

 Now Holly Garren. We'll continue with the feature in the podcast calling forward in season two and naturally, 

one thing which will not continue is my use of Microphones to record audio for the podcast. That little section there was actually recorded quite a long time ago. And you can probably tell from the quality of the audio is not quite as good as what you're actually listening to right now.  That's due to the investment in a nice shore microphone for the vocals here at the podcast. 

So as you can hear the vocals now are nice and clean and crisp and moving forward, they will remain that way. And season two should be much more polished. And they also have a little announcement I've been saving up right to the winter of 2020 3, 24.

And I've now Porsches to stereo matched pair of Sennheiser eight thousands. The 8,020 model. In fact. And I've been playing with these for the last three weeks in the field on their absolutely. Incredible have only scratched the surface with them at the moment, but I'm continually blown away by the audio that the recording in the field. 

It's absolutely incredible.  That means that in season two, it is going to be a lot of very, very nice audio and a lot to look forward to. 

Now, this means that didn't see it until the audio is going to be quite incredible. And I would imagine actually, probably the audio will change a little bit in the respect that I may play slightly longer recordings on average. Um, I'm actually concentrating quite a lot just at the moment on getting longer recordings of birds in song. 

Um, it's been very, very enjoyable in the field. And like I say, the initial results or the RD results are extremely promising and the audio is some of the best I've ever managed to record in the field. So that's look forward to in season two. 

 Now, even with the new Sanhaiser set up, of course I won't be neglecting my lingo problems or my listening stations, and both are still in operation this year.  I will still be running through some nutmeg and vis make recordings on a regular basis in season two, but I also have some great ideas for season two. A bit more kind of storytelling and maybe species based features on that kind of thing, but all will be revealed in the next season. 

 Now it's time for next cell magazine. , as promised, I'm going to stick with these sounds of autumn. And I thought really would be a good time of the year to concentrate a little bit on visit, make recordings, seeing as many of you will be out in the field. 

And all of these kinds of sounds will be all around you. So I've just put together a sound magazine based on typical sounds of autumn. 

 So this is the visit. Make files, sound magazine. I really do hope you enjoy this. And once again, folks I've mentioned it in the past, it would be great for you all to get out and just listening to any migration that might be going over your head in your local area.  I've run through it before in the podcast. 

I won't go through it again in much detail, but it's a fantastic time. Just get out, find a good location, sit down and enjoy the spectacle of migration. It really is one of the great wonders of the natural world. So I hope you enjoy this folks. This is the vis. Meg files. 

 So now on wild bird acoustics, we are going to talk once again about visible migration and have a lot of nice calls here for you from late autumn 2022 from Landsort, Sweden.  Now, I have a listening station on the island, and it's been excellent. So all of the recordings you will hear in the short section were recorded with the SM mini recorder.

and were recorded passively. It's an excellent location for migrants and large numbers of birds pass overhead in the autumn and this means I can gather a great deal of audio in the autumn and it's fantastic to build up a library of calls and I thought I'd share that audio with you now as it can be quite educational and instructive for those who want to learn how to sit out and listen for visible migration.

Now first up is a species that I really like to get in autumn and it's fairly scarce in autumn and it's always a decent bird to get and that is  And in this first recording, what you're going to hear is a flock of common redpoll going over. And among these birds is a calling half inch. And you will hear two types of call here, the classic high metallic single call, and then the very high call, which is very, very distinctive and stands out amongst the redpoll here.

So I'll play it for you now. Have a listen for the higher calls here of half inch in particular. And this is an excellent call to learn folks, as it's always a nice species to get on visible migration. Have a listen. in a late autumn morning. 

So that was half inch flying over among common redpoll there. And just for the sake of clarity, I'm going to play you another recording of half inch. And this time it's a single bird flying over the recorder at a much lower height. It's quite easy to hear this one. So I think for the purposes of education, It's probably good to play calls like this, just so there's no confusion species.

So what you will hear now is Halfinch overflying my SM mini recorder on the 13th of September, 2022, just before eight o'clock in the morning at Landsort in Sweden. 

So we'll stick with Halfinch once again, and I have a lot of audio of this species. I think it's good to just play these recordings, you know, a little bit repetitively. If I have multiple recordings of one species. And that may help listeners to get their ear in on these calls. So in this recording you will hear half inch first of all, followed by some bullfinch overflying the recorder.

This was taken on the 1st of November at 8. 34am, also at Landsort in Sweden. 

Now one of the things that draws me to watching visible migration is that you never know what's coming next. And in that way, it's very, very exciting. So on a good morning, you can end up with 30, 40 species. So a case in point now on this recording, and this is a long tailed tit, probably a family party moving down the island on migration.

In autumn, this species disperses quite widely around Sweden. So this probably represents just local migration. These birds actually breed in the spring and they can have very large clutches. And a lot of juvenile birds will have to disperse into new territory for the winter. And quite often when you're sitting out on Landsart in the autumn, you will have these family parties just moving down the island.

And it's quite amazing to see them just arrive at the south of the island, circle around the lighthouse, and attempt to cross the sea. So this is Longtail Tit. at Landsorten, Sweden, and this was recorded on the 20th of October 2022 at 8. 40 am. 

Now, one of my favorite species on autumn migration is Missalthrush, and in this recording, you will hear the clear rattling call of the species. For me, it's just one of those sounds of the autumn that I just love. Also here in this, you will hear a single redwing call for those of you with keen ears. But on the whole, this is a very nice recording of Missalthrush overflying the recorder And this was taken on the 22nd of October at 10.

22am. 

Very much a staple species of autumn migration here next, and that is common redpoll. These birds are extremely common here in Sweden and very, very regular on migration in the autumn. This is quite a nice recording to start with of a single bird overflying the recorder. And it's left a lovely clear recording of the call in flight.

So this is Common Redpaw and this was recorded at Landsart on the 28th of October, 2022. 

Common Redpaw is very much a flock bird and it's probably more typical for a small group to go through than a single bird. That's very much the case on Landsart in the autumn. So what I'm going to play for you now is a recording of a small group of Common Redpaw passing over the recorder. And this was taken on 30th of September, 2022.

That's 6 56 AM. So apart from the regular call, you will hear some of the higher calls and also the trilling call that you also hear from flocks of birds. All of these are typical calls on migration. And it's one of those species that you really need to learn if you want to get out to watch visible migration. 

So this is Common Redpoll on Landsort in Sweden.  Enjoy. 

The next species here on VisMig Files is Rock Pippet, and this is very much a species that you really have to learn your calls for.  It's very subtly different from Meadow Pippet, a much more common species, and Rock Pippets move through lands art in small numbers. Now, the call is just a little bit higher than Meadow Pippet and also has a slightly more grating explosive quality.

Generally speaking, this requires a little bit of experience, so it's always good folks to maybe Before you go out and do a little bit of visible migration watching, you can spend a little bit of time learning the calls and use resources like  xenocanto. org, an excellent library of audio calls, and I really recommend it to all listeners.

Using the extensive library there, you can go in and just tap in, rock pip it into the search box and just spend a little time familiarizing yourself with the calls. But as always, there's no substitute for field experience. That is, just getting out into the field early in the morning and just sitting and listening and learning the calls that way.

You'd be surprised by how quickly you can pick up a lot of calls and it really is quite rewarding to learn them. So once again, this is Rock Pippet, and this was taken on the 1st of November 2022 at Landsort in Sweden. 

Another classic migration species here in the autumn is Eurasian Siskin. And I have a nice recording here for you of a single bird overflying the recorder on the 21st of October 2022.  So once again, this is Eurasian Siskin at Landsort on the 21st of October 2022. 

Now right at the tail end of autumn is November and you might think that that's a little bit late to be getting out to watch for migrants but in actual fact you would be wrong. A lot of birds go over late in the season. Now snow bunting is a regular migrant in November at Landsart and it makes it worth getting out late in the autumn.

And I'm going to play a recording now, quite a long one, of a bird that was taken on the 3rd of November 2022 and in this recording the bird is giving a typical December 2 call. As well as the rippling note that they often give on migration. So have a listen to this, folks. It's Snowbunting on the 3rd of November, 2022 at Landsworth. 

Now, watching diurnal migration, you quite often get a few surprises. And in this next bit of audio, I actually recorded a call I had never heard before from Snowbunting. So, initially, you will hear the familiar rippling call, followed by a nasal call, which as I say, I had never heard before. So I'll play that for you now.

This is a snow bunting on the 19th of October at Landsort in Sweden. 

So on occasion when you're watching migration in the autumn, you will get species that are a little bit late or a little bit early, and these can be quite interesting too. The next recording is a tree pivot going through on the 30th of September on Landsort at 7 o'clock in the morning. Now this species is extremely common earlier in the autumn but as September and October move on it's well worth listening out for pivots like this and checking them out very very carefully for rarer species such as olive black pivots. 

But here is a tree pivot on the 30th of October at 7 a. m. on Landsort, Sweden. 

Next up is a species that actually would be quite rare in many locations in autumn and that is tree sparrow. Here in Sweden they're plentiful and you do get them in autumn passage as well as birds moving through locally.  This is tree sparrow passing over the recorder on the 2nd of November on Landsort at 10.

20am. Have a listen folks. 

Now one of my favourite species in late autumn is Bohemian Waxwing. And I love their doorbell calls as they fly over on migration. I'm going to start now with just a short recording of some waxwing flying past a recorder on the 25th of October 2022. 

So that was Bohemian Waxwing and it was quite a short recording. So I'll play another one now, a very clear recording also. And this is again Bohemian Waxwing and this recording was taken on the 31st of October 2022. at Landsort in Sweden.  Have a listen. 

So that wraps up this small sound magazine, The Visibing Files from Landsort in late autumn. I hope you've enjoyed these little audio excerpts and that they will come in useful for anybody who wants to get out into the fields, learn a few calls and get into watching visible migration in the autumn.

Like I say, it's a little bit of work, but it's very, very rewarding. And on a good morning, it's a wonderful way just to relax and sit back and enjoy the birds. One of the things I like about it is you are stationary. You find a nice, comfortable location, hopefully somewhere on a migration flyway. And then you can just sit back and enjoy the birds as they come to you and pass over your head.

And as I said earlier, one of the best things about it is you just never know what's going to pass over your head next. So there's always a little layer of expectancy and excitement as to what could possibly go over. And I really recommend giving it a go folks. So thanks for joining me here on the VisMig files. 



 Now, there you go. That was not an installment of the vis Meg files. And if that doesn't get you into the mood for the upcoming autumn, I'm not sure what will.  As I say it's time of the year that all borders greatly look forward to. It's a fantastic time to be in the field. There's plenty of boards on the move on. 

There's a huge chance of a rarity. If the weather is just right. But for me, one of the highlights of the item, as I say is Make watching on. I just love to spend the morning. Just good. Alberti just get out there as the sunrises. Um, just sit back, relax and enjoy the sounds on sites of active migration  and as always, if there's any of you out there who haven't tried us get out there and it's autumn. Um, give it a go. 

 So that's just about it from the penultimate episode of season, one of wild bird acoustics. That's episode 19. I hope you have enjoyed it.  It's a little warm up for the autumn  and I hope all of you out there have some wonderful birding over the course of the autumn. 

 As always, I like to thank you all the listeners for tuning into the podcast here at wild board acoustics.  . We'll be back in a couple of weeks until then take it easy and we'll see you soon on 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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