Earth Notes: 16WW House Suburban Sparrows Ambient (2022-05)
Updated 2024-10-18.House sparrows outside 16WW or close by. #sparrow #wildlife #fieldRecording
This episode has no words, it is all ambience again!
House sparrows (Passer domesticus) close to home in all their vibrant, tweeting, squabbling, gregarious glory, with some real-life urban background sounds such as cars on gravel, rain and plane, pigeons, people, parakeets, for scale, and because the suburbs never sleep.
Transcript:
[Ambient house sparrow sounds from 16WW or very close by in late May 2022.]
There are also motorbikes, an ice-cream van, jackdaws, a dog, ...
Show Notes
Recorded on the Zoom H1n, usually resting on my study windowsill, or hand-held.
Each clip was normalised separately.
Each clip is trimmed (and loudness re-normalised), and has a start/end fade -in/-out. The clips are raw and in order and date from 2022-05-19 to 2022-05-22.
Sparrows courtesy of Alison F
Sparrows (house sparrow, Passer domesticus) raucously tweeting their version of social media in the hedge at the front of the house December 2018:
57s "16WW front garden Pyracantha sparrows AF" Created/encoded . Uploaded . Downloads: