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Birds and the Bees

Unnamed Road, Pewsey, Wiltshire SN9, UK

A 20-minute field recording by Mike Taylor made in Devizes, United Kingdom on 25 March 2011, in the afternoon. Soundscape: birdsong & dawn chorus, frogs & insects and soundwalks.

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Birds and the Bees
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Recordist's notes

Recorded on the banks of the Kennet and Avon canal near Wilcot, as part of me walking from my house on the Kennet in Reading to Bristol over the course of a few months in 2011. There were loads of common frogs spawning at the edge of the canal, accompanied by a dozen different birds including, Woodpigeon, Chiff-chaff, Great tit, Blue Tit, Greenfinch, Collard Dove,Wren, Redshank?, Moorhen, Willow warbler and Robin. Recorded on an Edirol with custom capsule array. Mike Taylor

Written by Mike Taylor on radio aporee ::: maps.

About the place

Devizes is a town of about 16,834 people in England, United Kingdom.

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