This week, I've been committing to a short walk in the park every day. Lately I'm really interested in learning bird sounds, after I realized that a squirrel can sound like a bird, but it is not a bird.
As I paid attention to the sounds around me, both urban and natural, I noticed that the park is very noisy. Bird songs are often drowned out by human activity.
🍃Today's Field Notes
Thrumming of the driver in the lawn mower automobile buzzcutting grass
Beep, beep, beep as the construction vehicles go in reverse at the defunct public pool
Hummingbirds screech a territorial song as they divebomb into the trees. These are the sounds I notice, as well as the cheer-choo of the House Finch.
There are squirrels that rustle through the trees, some of them perch on high-up branches singing a warning call to passerbys on the near by path. "Stay away, stay away, this is my branch," they say in their best opera voice.
"Dada-dada-da" yells a baby from their stroller, babbling. A black phoebe perched high up from its electric pole perch skitters and flutters from the pole and back again, startled by the baby's gleeful sounds.
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