The snow fell so the Varied thrush came down from the hills to seek food. The power was off and this was an ideal opportunity to record in my garden without noise from humans. There is a distant generator sound and i did filter this out a little but what you hear here is the foraging of the Varied thrush around some feeders.

Part of a recording that includes this:
Location: Redmond property
Date: 2112-01-19
Time: 09:15
State: Washington

Description: morning snow fall with birds eating

Habitat: semi urban/coniferous
VoxType: morning
Category: soundscape

Recorder: SD 722
Mics: sennheiser mkh 40/30
Sample rate: 44.1k 24 bit
Microphone pattern: MS stereo
Take# 2

Anthrophony: passing traffic/40:00 distant generator/

Geophony: falling snow/ breaking branches/6:00 limb breaks/8:00 crack of branches/12:52 passing car/44:25 branch crack/

Biophony: varied thrush/black capped chickadee/red winged blackbird/chestnut backed chickadee/steller's jay/dark eyed junco/Douglas squirrel/2:30 mass take off of red winged blackbirds/6:45 wing flaps red winged blackbirds/evening grosbeak/11:10 squirrel/spotted towhee/12:25 varied thrush calls nice/23:00 bird chatter from red winged blackbirds then mass take off/40:20 red breasted nuthatch/42:45 varied thrush vocals nice/

Weather: falling snow
Temp: 34f
Humidity: 93%
Wind: calm
Barometer: 1013mb
Elevation: 662ft
GPS: N 47.65528 W121.98398

Recordist: Martyn Stewart

Notes: inserted -30 db tone at beginning of the recording/ Mic suspension with Rycote windjammer and gitzo tripod/

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