Ambient Sounds from Goose Creek
My little Olympus DW90 replacement brain (shirt-pocket digital recorder that travels with me in the car for those must-not-forget snippets of pithy prose or honey-do shopping items) occasionally picks up some ambient sounds from around here. But it is time to clean the digital memory of them and make room for other things. So rather than lose them, I recorded from the recorder into Audacity and converted two of the little sound clips into mp3 files. Both are bird-related, and both are against a noisy background of creek noise--a generally pleasant problem to have.
This is a crow call that I'm interested in knowing the "meaning" of. I call it the ah-WhahWhah! call, and it always is offered by a bird perched in the tippy top of a tree. I think it is a call of contentment and pleasure, not their raucous alarm call or nasal caw-cawwing call that says simply "here I am" that they often issue while in flight. Does anybody have any information about this call in the sound clip?
The second is from springtime. I haven't been able to make myself erase it, and sometimes will go back and play it for me alone in the car, when I'm having a trying day of home patient care, et cetera. It is a whippoorwill chorus from just out the back door--in May, I think.
So I guess this makes FFF a multi-media blog now. Right?
Comments
i haven't heard many whippoorwills since i was a child. we'd always hear them in the evenings on our farm in KY. those and bobwhites- too distinct sounds from childhood that bring pleasant memories when i hear them.
Posted by: amy f. | October 12, 2006 9:44 AM
LOVE THE WHIPPOORWILL CHORUS.
WHIPPOORWILLS AND BOBWHITES, AND BULLFROGS. MY DAD HAD A POND, AND ON A SUMMER NIGHT, A BULLFROG WOULD START SINGING, AND THEN THE WHOLE CHOIR OF BULLFROGS WOULD JOIN IN. WHAT A SUMMER NIGHT SOUND!! FREE, FOR THE ENJOYMENT!!
MARK
Posted by: MARK | October 12, 2006 10:46 AM
Isn't this the call of the raven?
Posted by: Mary C | October 12, 2006 11:06 AM
This is typical of the calls from our local ravens:
http://www.naturesongs.com/raven1.wav
Posted by: fred1st | October 13, 2006 5:08 AM
Wonderful sounds, Fred. We don't seem to have whippoorwills up in this part of Floyd.
Posted by: Gretchen | October 13, 2006 8:06 AM
You've been multimedia for awhile, Fred, with your photography, live presentations, and now book. I hope to hear more sounds from FFF--maybe even a podcast someday? It's all a slippery slope to multimodality...
Tim
Posted by: Tim | October 16, 2006 8:18 AM