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Interesting natural sounds

This is a great thread that I just now saw.

Mrs. H, as some of all y'all may know, is a hardcore birder.
Indeed, she's going to Ghana later in the fall.
Hardcore.

As the spouse of a hardcore birder, I spend more time than most normal people listening to birdsong -- both live and recorded. :)

Two of the most noteworthy that we get here in our little piece of the world:

The veery, whose song is polyphonic and, on a still summer evening, haunting.


And then there's the American bittern, also know as (among other things): thunder-pumper, belcher-squelcher, stake-driver, and some other similar evocations of their unique "call". We have them in the neighborhood in the early summer -- they can be very hard to see, but they're very easy to hear. :)

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/American_Bittern/sounds
(the 1991 clip is illustrative)
 
The beating of hummingbird wings - I love that sound.

When my friends ask why I don't have any A/V gear outside on our patio, I tell them it's because I want to enjoy nature's own music, such as that.
 
The silence after a heavy snowfall, when the powder has softened and sound-treated the landscape.

A woodpecker in the forest, echoing.
Have you ever stopped and observed how it works? It’s probably not what you imagine.

The buzzing of large insects in the summer, by our creek.

Gentle gusts of wind through a dry wheat field just before harvest.
 
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