A soundscape recording made on a ridge between adjoining beaver ponds, as the night's frogs give way to the dawn chorus; beaver ruminations; and some Meet the Neighbors news!
This is so interesting and as always I love your writing. Your recordings are so cool, what a great idea! I want to try this. I’ve been reading and listening to some folk who do nature recordings.
Like Gordon Hempton, and the One Square Inch of Silence Foundation, now Quiet Parks International aiming to preserve places that are quiet, which is to say free of human noise, very hard to find.
And of course Seán Ronayne, who does the Irish Wildlife Sounds project.
The idea that our ears not only find pleasure in those sounds that nourish us (such as running water) evolutionally, but that our brain tunes out hundreds of other sounds that we hear but don’t know we hear, is so interesting.
Your recording sounds like a jazz ensemble from some jiving birds and critters, I love it.
I loved the recording and so did Arya the Cockatiel, my avian companion. The world's largest beaver dam is almost a half-mile long inside a national park that is the largest in Canada and the second largest in the world, located in northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
Beavers are called Nature's hydro engineers for solid reasons And they are as cute as they are diligent.
As for animal intelligence, we humans are slowly finding out how intelligent non-human animals truly are. I often observe Arya observing me. Bird brain is a high complment, indeed.
This is so interesting and as always I love your writing. Your recordings are so cool, what a great idea! I want to try this. I’ve been reading and listening to some folk who do nature recordings.
Like Gordon Hempton, and the One Square Inch of Silence Foundation, now Quiet Parks International aiming to preserve places that are quiet, which is to say free of human noise, very hard to find.
And of course Seán Ronayne, who does the Irish Wildlife Sounds project.
The idea that our ears not only find pleasure in those sounds that nourish us (such as running water) evolutionally, but that our brain tunes out hundreds of other sounds that we hear but don’t know we hear, is so interesting.
Your recording sounds like a jazz ensemble from some jiving birds and critters, I love it.
Thank you, Jennifer! You absolutely should try it :)
I hadn't heard of Hempton and Ronayne and QPI ... will check them out.
So did I Love the jazz jiving reference 🕊🦜
I loved the recording and so did Arya the Cockatiel, my avian companion. The world's largest beaver dam is almost a half-mile long inside a national park that is the largest in Canada and the second largest in the world, located in northern Alberta and the Northwest Territories.
Beavers are called Nature's hydro engineers for solid reasons And they are as cute as they are diligent.
As for animal intelligence, we humans are slowly finding out how intelligent non-human animals truly are. I often observe Arya observing me. Bird brain is a high complment, indeed.
Thank you for this post. Very enjoyable.
Honored to receive Arya the Cockatiel's seal of approval!