Showing posts with label bird calls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bird calls. Show all posts

Monday, December 22, 2014

Grackle Flock Calls - Amazing Sound!


Common Grackles by the Hundreds descend on the backyard to rest briefly in the trees - resulting in a deafening cacophony that may not be pleasing to the ear, but is surely exciting. They depart as rapidly as they arrived - leaving silence and a few upset Blue Jays wondering what just happened. Grackles are year-round residents, but they form into huge flocks in the winter and move as a group looking for food.

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Common Grackle



Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Relaxing Nature Meditation - Rabbit in the Rain ...



Listen to 18 minutes of thunder, rain and bird songs as a Cottontail Rabbit rides out a storm in its favorite spot under a small arborvitae tree where it has made a dirt patch. Just listen to the thunder, rain and bird songs or concentrate on the Rabbits rhythmic breathing - it's a nose breather as one might imagine. As the storm passes the birds begin to sing again and the rabbit shakes off the water and is hungry. The ebb and flow of Nature!

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Cottontail Rabbit


Saturday, May 3, 2014

Groundhog Breakfast and Beautiful Bird Songs


A large, wet Groundhog heads out for his breakfast while a plethora of birds sing their hearts out. The most notable songster is the Eastern Towhee, how many others can you identify?

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Monday, April 7, 2014

Great Crested Flycatcher Calls



The Great Crested Flycatcher distinctive call lets you know its making a very rare appearance in the Backyard - just once a year for a few days in April as it is migrating northward for the summer and then is gone. You can hear it's unique call, but its hard to find - and harder to film as it usually stays high in the trees as in this case! There are light calls of a  single "weep" three times - one is real weak, but you can see the beak move and then a harsher fives repetitions of "breep". These are about the same as the recordings on the Cornell site: http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/great_crested_flycatcher/sounds
What usually catches my attention is a louder whistle "weep" and then I start looking around, I only got a brief glimpse of a Great Crested Flycatcher last year around this same time.

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Great Crested Flycatcher Calls