ESPatch

I awoke the other morning to the most amazing bird song I have ever heard. It was so exotic that the sound dragged me out of deep slumber.

While my brain was still on the verge of subconsiousness, I thought a single, solitary thought          (actually I had two.)  The first was to capture the song on my phone, but that seemed like an awful lot of

‘kerfuffle’ in my current state, and secondly my lazy mind convinced me that the bird probably had already moved on, never to be heard again.

I fell back asleep thinking it must have been a mocking bird mimicking an exotic South American migratory bird it had heard on its travels.

When the same birdsong started up sometime later, I was once again amazed.

This time the dawn chorus was brief.

After waking up, I communicated the whole experience to my wife who looked at me and said that it was her new ‘birdsong’ phone alarm (sounds and haptics) available through the Apple stock ‘clock’ app in ‘bedtime wakeup sounds’.

It was set on snooze!

I quietly poured a coffee -and needless to say – set the alarm as my new wakeup call.

I believe the main bird on the recording is some type of Thrush, perhaps a Swainson’s Thrush?

Okay, that image is only slightly disturbing.

I intend to play this alarm to the next mocking bird I get close to, you never know, I may one day get this dawn chorus delivered straight from the birds’ beak, er horses’ mouth, whatever.

Talking of mocking birds, I recorded half and hours worth from this bird:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ebTji71wmo