Mountain Walk with Bird Songs

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Mountain Walk with Bird Songs

Written by Bob Sundstrom

This is BirdNote.
(Swainson’s Thrush song, https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/206453 repeat twice with short gaps)
The song of a Swainson’s Thrush spirals upward, as we begin a hike in the mountains of the West. The trail leads from a riverside forest in the lowlands, and as we walk, bird voices ring out.
A mile up the trail in a stand of Ponderosa pines, a Townsend’s Solitaire lets loose its rush of notes.
(Townsend’s Solitaire song, https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/120266 )
Another mile along, and among silvery green fir trees the crystalline phrases of a Hermit Thrush carry through the forest.
(Hermit Thrush song, https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/207547 0:24 and 0:47)
A Pine Grosbeak warbles sweetly from the scattered evergreens, as our climb reaches the high subalpine.
(Pine Grosbeak song, https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/105794 )
We stop now at the top, in the open, rocky alpine zone, and an American Pipit hovers overhead and trills a long torrent of notes.
(American Pipit song, https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/105285 )
Finally, as we take in the vast, snow-draped mountain landscape, a White-tailed Ptarmigan cackles from atop a lichen-covered boulder.
(White-tailed Ptarmigan call, https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/192103  1:40 and 1:50)
Listen again at BirdNote.org. I’m Mary McCann.
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Bird sounds provided by The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. Recorded by Geoffrey A. Keller and Bob McGuire.
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© 2018 Tune In to Nature.org   July 2018/2019   Narrator: Mary McCann

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