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“Bill, your Hermit Thrush photo is actually a Fox Sparrow. It’s actually the eastern subspecies (Red Fox Sparrow). It’s very rare in Idaho. Cool bird for sure.” Darren. Darren Clark wrote this email to me after reading my last week’s article about getting your feeders out for wintering birds. Everyone needs a Darren Clark in […]
BRATTLEBORO — Latchis Arts is relaunching its monthly Spotlight Film Series tonight, with the first month’s focus on Black voices.
Article content It appears that one of our most popular birds in Renfrew County will be arriving in our area on schedule. This, of course, is the Ruby-throated Hummingbird. This year, I thought that these birds might arrive early due to the large numbers reported south of the border. However, the cool and breezy weather this past two weeks delayed their arrival. In early April, these birds usually arrive in the southern states from their winter home. By the end of April to early May, they normally will have arrived in Renfrew County. The earliest known record for this bird’s arrival in our ...
How birds and animals and have inspired and shaped classical music How birds and animals and have inspired and shaped classical music Beasts and birds of all shapes and sizes have inspired composers in a remarkable variety of ways. Claire Jackson takes us on a zoological tour Published: April 19, 2021 at 4:50 pm ‘The duck quacked and, in her excitement, jumped out of the pond,’ gasps David Bowie in his iconic narration of Peter and the Wolf, recorded in 1977. ‘But no matter how hard she tried to run, she couldn’t escape.’ (Recent modernisations are...
Alerts A reed warbler warbling, and maybe unknowingly laying down the guest vocal for a new pop hit. Photo: Dan Kitwood (Getty Images) Last fall, music producer and sound designer So Wylie pioneered what can only be called bird beat. The genre was born from her discovering the insistent call of the Saw-whet Owl, using that sound as the key sample in a pounding, immensely catchy instrumental, and posting the results on TikTok. A few months later, Wylie’s not only created a bunch of follow-up bird beats but she has also been embraced by communities of online birders eager to hear their avian ...