Well I was trying to give you an “auditory taste” of Spring by Sodom Pond but I had very poor recording equipment (just my iPhone voice recorder) and great technical difficulties (couldn’t manage to edit my soundtracks). So here are just a few recordings. I apologize for the poor quality but hope they will give you a taste of Spring here by my pond.
Feel free to just listen to a snippet of each one. I would have trimmed them if I could. I did try. You could also try playing them all at once…a Spring symphony or “biophany” as a friend told me it could be called.
The red winged blackbirds just returned today.
Maple sugaring also started this week. Here is the sap dripping into the buckets. I love that sound though it’s rare to hear these days because most people now collect the sap with tubing.
Birders forgive me. I’m not going to ID these birdsongs but enjoy listening.
And of course the peepers. They haven’t started up quite yet, but any day now.
The geese haven’t arrived yet either and I didn’t have a decent enough recording. Maybe I’ll try again in a few days. Their return definitely signifies the arrival of Spring.
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I loved this Ruth. The geese are here in Winooski. Monday Rivka and I went down to the river and listened to the gulls, ducks and geese, what fun. Rivka automatically screeched back at the gull who screeched at her. And we saw/heard a goose loose its temper and put all the birds in their places. The ducks muttered.
I really enjoyed the spring biophany (great word!).
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Ruth, so lovely – I played them together all at once – the world became whole again in rhythm to the maple 🍁 thank you for creating this biophany – a word I just learned in slow birding
very inventive email. but that’s what I expect from you.