Song of the Wood Thrush

We have birds singing in our yard and the surrounding woods year-round, though it is awfully quiet in the winter in comparison to late spring and early summer when migratory songbirds fill our woods.

The slowly changing song of the wood thrush is enchanting. They’ve been singing for about a month now. For a week or two, one would serenade me from a tree close by while I worked in the shop. Usually they’re more reclusive and not that readily seen.

I’ve used our video camera to record a wood thrush singing in early evening. This one was high in a tree in the woods just west of our home. It was windy when I recorded this and it’s impossible to hear other wood thrushes responding, frogs at the small “pond” between our home and the new vegetable garden, or other singing birds.

The segment here is about 90 seconds long (2.3 MB file size).

More soon!

July 1, 2011