Over the weekend, The Hub and I were driving through some bush and the birds were enjoying the weather as much as we were. Here’s a 15 second recording I made. The bell birds are obvious (they sound like little bells – lovely to hear, but if you are camping near a flock you soon end up rather demented as they are unrelenting, lol). The other birds I recognise from the calls are a wattlebird, rosellas and wrens, although there are more species than that in the recording.
How is it different to the bird choruses where you live?
July 24, 2022 at 10:07 pm
Oooo that was beautiful! I never really pay attention to the birds here hahaha unless its 5am and they are waking me up 😅😅
July 25, 2022 at 6:42 pm
I love listening to birds. For me they are a happy sound.
July 24, 2022 at 11:47 pm
There are all manner of birds’ songs here where I live (Pacific Northwest): melodic songbirds and raucous crows and ravens. And the surprisingly dainty “tinkly” noises of bald eagles (film makers usually dub in the fiercer cry of hawks when they film a bald eagle) . I love them all.
Deb
July 25, 2022 at 6:43 pm
We don’t have crows in the city I live in (although we have them in Australia) – but we have ravens. Plus quite a few other hoarsy, croaky birds. I had no idea bald eagles were dainty songbirds because you are right, they always sound fierce in the movies.
July 24, 2022 at 11:53 pm
That is wonderful. My birds here are either melodic or cawing (the hundreds of blackbirds who like joining me in the backyard). What a great quality recording.
July 25, 2022 at 6:44 pm
Thanks, Jacqui. I am rather thrilled it worked as well as it did. I was just disappointed I missed the long belly laugh a couple of kookaburras woke us up with.
July 25, 2022 at 6:42 am
Right now we have lots of quacking and honking (although I haven’t seen the geese in a couple days). And add in a bullfrog (it sounds like a fog horn).
July 25, 2022 at 6:45 pm
Ducks and geese are great too. I don’t have any waterbirds close by, although there are quite a few in Canberra and surrounds. Your bullfrog is much louder than our frogs!
July 25, 2022 at 12:26 pm
That was fun to hear! I’ve never heard of bell birds. We’ve had a noisy blue jay hanging around lately who occasionally has a splash in the bird bath around 4 in the afternoon.
July 25, 2022 at 6:46 pm
I get quite a collection of birds parading through my bird bath, although they all tend to be larger species birds. I am working towards encouraging smaller species, but I need the bushes and trees I’ve planted around the bird bath to grow more so the little birds feel safer.
July 26, 2022 at 5:40 am
I have a feeder right outside our picture window. It has been there for over twenty years and we have documented over 18 varieties feeding there. Five of those are migratory birds that stop on their way through.
My favorite call is not a bird that partakes of the feeder. It is an Eastern Screech Owl that nests in our back yard. Lovely way to start an evening.