Opal Day Use Area, Part 1
5/19/202619 min
One thing I’ve learned from years of birding is not to ignore a good roadside birding location.
It often seems counterintuitive to me as a sound recordist — I do want to be away from traffic sounds, of course. But often roadside stops consist of edge habitats that songbirds love to occupy.
And, also in this case, Columbian Ground Squirrels. You’ll hear them in this episode, but I wasn’t aware they were called Colombian Ground Squirrels at the time.
Credits
Songbirding: Kananaskis Country is a Songbirding Studios production.
Recorded, engineered, narrated and created by Rob Porter.
The Songbirding cover art (Townsend's Warbler) is by Lauren Helton: https://tinylongwing.carbonmade.com/projects/5344062
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsRob Porter· Host0:12
Got Townsend's Warbler. Some kind of roadside pull over. I think it's kind of a picnic area called Opal. And there's this Townsend's Warbler here. There's Ruby-crowned Kinglets. A whole bunch of ground squirrels. Sounds like a Tennessee Warbler here, too. So because it's roadside, there's a lot of traffic here, but in between the traffic, we can hear the things like, uh, this Warbling Vireo here. Townsend's Warbler. That's the Warbling Vireo. The Chipping Sparrow. So I'm having a bit of a break, having a coffee and muffin and, uh, leave this recorder here, and so we can listen to this Townsend's Warbler for