It's soft but clear at the beginning of this video, which scans the same expanse seen in the "Rainbow Panorama" 2 days ago.
And do notice the moon at the beginning of the video. I'll give you a still for reference:
It did not look yellow to the naked eye. It looked white. It is a full moon. It's the Harvest Moon!
Overheard at Meadhouse: "You don't mind if I have your voice in this video?"/"I don't know — what was I saying?"/"Oh, nothing"/[Squawks]/"It was an unusual Meadsong."
It did not look yellow to the naked eye. It looked white. It is a full moon. It's the Harvest Moon!
Overheard at Meadhouse: "You don't mind if I have your voice in this video?"/"I don't know — what was I saying?"/"Oh, nothing"/[Squawks]/"It was an unusual Meadsong."
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I can't hear it. Of course the crew putting in new water mains on my street are making a lot of noise, including the incessant beep beep beep of their back-up alarms. Day three of it. It's maddening.
I'll guess wren.
Not really a bird guy, but it sounds like one of them double barreled sap suckers to me.
A new birdsong at dawn on Lake Mendota today — can you tell me what it is?
Meade: "I used to know."
The rare Prince Matchabelli.
"I can't seem to forget you, your Wind Song stays on my mind."
Loon. I learned that watching On Golden Pond. Kate Hepburn mimics the call of the loon in the movie.
Minnesotan here: Loon
Just guessing...Loon or Whippoorwill.
Kind of sounds like a loon to me. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2PVTZwap-Q
Starlink satellite deployment as of the end of September
I think this four minute video should be self-explanatory. It's like if you could see the whole sky overhead wrapped around the world as the satellites move, then this is the pattern, a grid, that you would see. And when the grid is complete, then Starlink's internet will be ready to use.
And that should be by the end of this year.
Now this a much faster service than has been previously available by satellite. But the total capacity, for a given area, is limited and it is mostly intended for people that have poor or no service currently (although even within cities there may be some people that want this).
The thirteenth batch of 60 Starlink satellites is launching tomorrow.
Sounds like a Sandhill Crane
Definitely a common loon.
Sounds like a Sandhill Crane.
(apologies if this is a double post but didn't see my first response published)
Definitely a common loon.
Crews on break, and I put headphones. That is definitely a loon. And they are on mendota spring and fall as they migrate to and from northern Wisconsin and Canada.
This summer Mainer can assure you:loon
loon
Could be an eastern screech owl.
My first guess was a single loon making a pair call but the sound on the video is faint but still doesn't seem shrill enough for a loon. And do they make the pair call when there isn't another calling the return?
...but I got nothin after that...
Sounds like a grebe to me, not the Great Crested, but the Little grebe, Tachybaptus ruficollis.
Here, here, and here are examples.
Loon, for sure. Started seeing them on Madison lakes last week as they migrate through.
"Sounds like a Sandhill Crane"
I am familiar with the sandhill cranes that are often in this area, and I know it was a different sound.
As for the loon and the screech owl... hmmm... help me out. They're not that much alike. I'm thinking the owl, because it's a simpler more repetitive thing, more like the oola-loola I heard.
Grebes I'm used to out here, and this was different... unless I've forgotten the grebes. I didn't see the grebes. They come through at certain times of year, but this doesn't seem to be the time... though it could be the first grebe.
This must be like the Yanni Laurel debate because I can't hear anything but maybe bubbling water.
Try a few more screech owls...
Screech owl calls
mmmmmmm.... Grebe's
Lifelong birder here. It's a screech owl.
Check out the loons and Katherine Hepburn's attempts to answer them from In Golden Pond. That's what I heard.
https://youtu.be/5yTwD7U_XV4
There is an excellent bird app from Cornell that has hundreds of bird calls, often multiple ones for each species.
Purple Crested Buffalo Chip Hopper!
Halloween will be the next full moon, a "blue moon", or two full moons in the same month. And this one hasn't been seen since 1944.
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